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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-team <kernel-team@fb.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
	Maxim Mikityanskiy <maximmi@mellanox.com>,
	bjorn.topel@intel.com, magnus.karlsson@intel.com,
	borisp@mellanox.com, david@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/21] skbuff: add a zc_netgpu bitflag
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:24:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANn89i+AZ9PnRssWpiE5zj41V1=85Jcy80Rtbp7mLjp73Y71Pw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200727052846.4070247-9-jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 12:20 AM Jonathan Lemon
<jonathan.lemon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This could likely be moved elsewhere.  The presence of the flag on
> the skb indicates that one of the fragments may contain zerocopy
> RX data, where the data is not accessible to the cpu.

Why do we need yet another flag in skb exactly ?

Please define what means "data not accessible to the cpu" ?

This kind of change is a red flag for me.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-27 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20200727052846.4070247-1-jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20200727052846.4070247-4-jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
2020-07-27  5:58   ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/21] mm: Allow DMA mapping of pages which are not online Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 17:08     ` Jonathan Lemon
     [not found] ` <20200727052846.4070247-22-jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
2020-07-27  7:35   ` [RFC PATCH v2 21/21] netgpu/nvidia: add Nvidia plugin for netgpu Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 17:00     ` Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-27 18:24       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28  1:48         ` Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-28  6:47           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 16:05             ` Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-28 16:10               ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 18:19           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-28 21:01             ` Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-28 21:14               ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 23:38               ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found] ` <20200727052846.4070247-14-jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
2020-07-27 15:19   ` [RFC PATCH v2 13/21] net/tcp: Pad TCP options out to a fixed size " Eric Dumazet
2020-07-27 17:20     ` Jonathan Lemon
     [not found] ` <20200727052846.4070247-16-jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
2020-07-27 15:19   ` [RFC PATCH v2 15/21] net/tcp: add MSG_NETDMA flag for sendmsg() Eric Dumazet
2020-07-27 15:55     ` Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-27 16:09       ` Eric Dumazet
2020-07-27 17:35         ` Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-27 17:44           ` Eric Dumazet
2020-07-28  2:11             ` Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-28  2:17               ` Eric Dumazet
2020-07-28  3:08                 ` Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-28  6:50                 ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found] ` <20200727052846.4070247-9-jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
2020-07-27 15:24   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2020-07-27 16:59     ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/21] skbuff: add a zc_netgpu bitflag Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-27 17:08       ` Eric Dumazet
2020-07-27 17:16         ` Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-27 22:44 [RFC PATCH v2 00/21] netgpu: networking between NIC and GPU/CPU Jonathan Lemon
2020-07-27 22:44 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/21] skbuff: add a zc_netgpu bitflag Jonathan Lemon

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