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| author | Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> | 2017-01-03 06:31:47 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-01-03 11:00:27 -0500 |
| commit | 7f953ab2ba46e8649537942c0a64668ca2ce5cc5 (patch) | |
| tree | 7832da3907c92bd7e96b680cefb276e3708d500c /Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | |
| parent | e7072f6669860c4918ced4acf6a7e482023bd40f (diff) | |
af_packet: TX_RING support for TPACKET_V3
Although TPACKET_V3 Rx has some benefits over TPACKET_V2 Rx, *_v3
does not currently have TX_RING support. As a result an application
that wants the best perf for Tx and Rx (e.g. to handle request/response
transacations) ends up needing 2 sockets, one with *_v2 for Tx and
another with *_v3 for Rx.
This patch enables TPACKET_V2 compatible Tx features in TPACKET_V3
so that an application can use a single descriptor to get the benefits
of _v3 RX_RING and _v2 TX_RING. An application may do a block-send by
first filling up multiple frames in the Tx ring and then triggering a
transmit. This patch only support fixed size Tx frames for TPACKET_V3,
and requires that tp_next_offset must be zero.
Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index daa015af16a0..f3b9e507ab05 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ TPACKET_V1 --> TPACKET_V2: (void *)hdr + TPACKET_ALIGN(sizeof(struct tpacket_hdr)) TPACKET_V2 --> TPACKET_V3: - - Flexible buffer implementation: + - Flexible buffer implementation for RX_RING: 1. Blocks can be configured with non-static frame-size 2. Read/poll is at a block-level (as opposed to packet-level) 3. Added poll timeout to avoid indefinite user-space wait @@ -574,7 +574,12 @@ TPACKET_V2 --> TPACKET_V3: 4.1 block::timeout 4.2 tpkt_hdr::sk_rxhash - RX Hash data available in user space - - Currently only RX_RING available + - TX_RING semantics are conceptually similar to TPACKET_V2; + use tpacket3_hdr instead of tpacket2_hdr, and TPACKET3_HDRLEN + instead of TPACKET2_HDRLEN. In the current implementation, + the tp_next_offset field in the tpacket3_hdr MUST be set to + zero, indicating that the ring does not hold variable sized frames. + Packets with non-zero values of tp_next_offset will be dropped. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + AF_PACKET fanout mode |