[v15,04/17] Add a function make external buffer owner to query capability.

Commit Message

Xin, Xiaohui Nov. 9, 2010, 9:03 a.m. UTC

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Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 575777f..8dcf6de 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1736,6 +1736,8 @@  extern gro_result_t	napi_frags_finish(struct napi_struct *napi,
 					  gro_result_t ret);
 extern struct sk_buff *	napi_frags_skb(struct napi_struct *napi);
 extern gro_result_t	napi_gro_frags(struct napi_struct *napi);
+extern int netdev_mp_port_prep(struct net_device *dev,
+				struct mp_port *port);
 
 static inline void napi_free_frags(struct napi_struct *napi)
 {
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 660dd41..84fbb83 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2942,6 +2942,47 @@  out:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/* To support meidate passthru(zero-copy) with NIC driver,
+ * we'd better query NIC driver for the capability it can
+ * provide, especially for packet split mode, now we only
+ * query for the header size, and the payload a descriptor
+ * may carry.
+ * Now, it's only called by mpassthru device.
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_MEDIATE_PASSTHRU) || defined(CONFIG_MEDIATE_PASSTHRU_MODULE)
+int netdev_mp_port_prep(struct net_device *dev,
+		struct mp_port *port)
+{
+	int rc;
+	int npages, data_len;
+	const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops;
+
+	if (ops->ndo_mp_port_prep) {
+		rc = ops->ndo_mp_port_prep(dev, port);
+		if (rc)
+			return rc;
+	} else
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (port->hdr_len <= 0)
+		goto err;
+
+	npages = port->npages;
+	data_len = port->data_len;
+	if (npages <= 0 || npages > MAX_SKB_FRAGS ||
+			(data_len < PAGE_SIZE * (npages - 1) ||
+			 data_len > PAGE_SIZE * npages))
+		goto err;
+
+	return 0;
+err:
+	dev_warn(&dev->dev, "invalid page constructor parameters\n");
+
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_mp_port_prep);
+#endif
+
 /**
  *	netif_receive_skb - process receive buffer from network
  *	@skb: buffer to process