Dor Laor wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 12:49 -0700, Max Krasnyansky wrote: >> Rusty Russell wrote: >>> This patch modifies tun to allow a vringfd to specify the receive >>> buffer. Because we can't copy to userspace in bh context, we queue >>> like normal then use the "pull" hook to actually do the copy. >>> >>> More thought needs to be put into the possible races with ring >>> registration and a simultaneous close, for example (see FIXME). >>> >>> We use struct virtio_net_hdr prepended to packets in the ring to allow >>> userspace to receive GSO packets in future (at the moment, the tun >>> driver doesn't tell the stack it can handle them, so these cases are >>> never taken). >> In general the code looks good. The only thing I could not convince myself in >> is whether having generic ring buffer makes sense or not. >> At least the TUN driver would be more efficient if it had its own simple ring >> implementation. Less indirection, fewer callbacks, fewer if()s, etc. TUN >> already has the file descriptor and having two additional fds for rx and tx >> ring is a waste (think of a VPN server that has to have a bunch of TUN fds). >> Also as I mentioned before Jamal and I wanted to expose some of the SKB fields >> through TUN device. With the rx/tx rings the natural way of doing that would >> be the ring descriptor itself. It can of course be done the same way we copy >> proto info (PI) and GSO stuff before the packet but that means more >> copy_to_user() calls and yet more checks. >> >> So. What am I missing ? Why do we need generic ring for the TUN ? I looked at >> the lguest code a bit and it seems that we need a bunch of network specific >> code anyway. The cool thing is that you can now mmap the rings into the guest >> directly but the same thing can be done with TUN specific rings. >> > > The idea was to use the same virtio ring that the guests use. > The thing with TUN specific ring is that the guests are the one > allocating the rings within their memory space and the opposite makes > life very complex. We can do the same thing with TUN rings. I mean have them allocated in the guest space. With that we'd still have all of the advantages that I listed above. ie We'd have ring descriptors that carry packet info, less indirection, etc. Max _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization