From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:38:29 +0930 > On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 04:55:53 pm David Miller wrote: >> From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@xxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:47:22 +0200 >> >> > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 23:44 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: >> >> This patch adds skb_orphan to the start of dev_hard_start_xmit(): it >> >> can be premature in the NETDEV_TX_BUSY case, but that's uncommon. >> > >> > Would it be possible to make the new skb_orphan() at the start of >> > dev_hard_start_xmit() conditionally so that it is not executed for >> > packets that are to be time stamped? >> > >> > As discussed before >> > (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/121378/), the skb->sk >> > socket pointer is required for sending back the send time stamp from >> > inside the device driver. Calling skb_orphan() unconditionally as in >> > this patch would break the hardware time stamping of outgoing packets. >> >> Indeed, we need to check that case, at a minimum. >> >> And there are other potentially other problems. For example, I >> wonder how this interacts with the new TX MMAP af_packet support >> in net-next-2.6 :-/ > > I think I'll do this in the driver for now, and let's revisit doing it > generically later? That might be the best course of action for the time being. This whole area is a rat's nest. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
