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[V3,2/8] Add a new zerocopy device flag

Message ID 1303330173.19336.52.camel@localhost.localdomain (mailing list archive)
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Shirley Ma April 20, 2011, 8:09 p.m. UTC 
Resubmit this patch with the new bit.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
---

 include/linux/netdevice.h |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)



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Comments

Dimitris Michailidis April 20, 2011, 8:24 p.m. UTC | #1 
On 04/20/2011 01:09 PM, Shirley Ma wrote:
> Resubmit this patch with the new bit.

Bit 30 is also taken in net-next.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma <xma@us.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
>  include/linux/netdevice.h |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> index 0249fe7..0998d3d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> @@ -1067,6 +1067,9 @@ struct net_device {
>  #define NETIF_F_RXHASH		(1 << 28) /* Receive hashing offload */
>  #define NETIF_F_RXCSUM		(1 << 29) /* Receive checksumming offload */
>  
> +/* Bit 30 is for device to map userspace buffers -- zerocopy */
> +#define NETIF_F_ZEROCOPY	(1 << 30)
> +
>  	/* Segmentation offload features */
>  #define NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT	16
>  #define NETIF_F_GSO_MASK	0x00ff0000
> 
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Shirley Ma April 20, 2011, 8:28 p.m. UTC | #2 
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 13:24 -0700, Dimitris Michailidis wrote:
> Bit 30 is also taken in net-next.

How about 31?

Thanks
Shirley

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diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 0249fe7..0998d3d 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1067,6 +1067,9 @@  struct net_device {
 #define NETIF_F_RXHASH		(1 << 28) /* Receive hashing offload */
 #define NETIF_F_RXCSUM		(1 << 29) /* Receive checksumming offload */
 
+/* Bit 30 is for device to map userspace buffers -- zerocopy */
+#define NETIF_F_ZEROCOPY	(1 << 30)
+
 	/* Segmentation offload features */
 #define NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT	16
 #define NETIF_F_GSO_MASK	0x00ff0000