Thread (30 messages) flat view 30 messages, 3 authors, 2012-05-14

Re: [PATCH RFC 5/6] net: orphan frags on receive

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2012-05-14 19:18:44

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:54:52PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 14:54 +0100, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
quoted
zero copy packets are normally sent to the outside
network, but bridging, tun etc might loop them
back to host networking stack. If this happens
destructors will never be called, so orphan
the frags immediately on receive.
I think this deceptively simply patch is actually the meat of the
series.
Eric, does this patch look ok to you?
It's key to both my and ian's zerocopy work.

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MST
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