Re: [PATCH V3 2/8] Add a new zerocopy device flag

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On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:42 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> This comment should specify what exactly is the promise the
> device makes by setting this flag. Specifically, the
> condition is that no skb fragments are used
> after the uinfo callback has been called.
> 
> The way it's implemented, it probably means the device
> should not use any of skb_clone, expand head etc.

Agree. Or maybe force a copy when device uses skb_clone, expand
head ...?

Thanks
Shirley

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