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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2009-01-04 16:13:40 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-01-04 16:13:40 -0800
commit5d38a079ce3971f932bbdc0dc5b887806fabd5dc (patch)
tree79d948098add1f6c52ecd42c151ce6b6fa1dbc5a /mm/internal.h
parentb530256d2e0f1a75fab31f9821129fff1bb49faa (diff)
gro: Add page frag support
This patch allows GRO to merge page frags (skb_shinfo(skb)->frags) in one skb, rather than using the less efficient frag_list. It also adds a new interface, napi_gro_frags to allow drivers to inject page frags directly into the stack without allocating an skb. This is intended to be the GRO equivalent for LRO's lro_receive_frags interface. The existing GSO interface can already handle page frags with or without an appended frag_list so nothing needs to be changed there. The merging itself is rather simple. We store any new frag entries after the last existing entry, without checking whether the first new entry can be merged with the last existing entry. Making this check would actually be easy but since no existing driver can produce contiguous frags anyway it would just be mental masturbation. If the total number of entries would exceed the capacity of a single skb, we simply resort to using frag_list as we do now. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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