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tap: accept an array of XDP buffs through sendmsg()
authorJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 03:17:08 +0000 (11:17 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:25:41 +0000 (09:25 -0700)
commitef7d8291285090fc159dc2f22094a452fa585804
tree91a1d78027c8581e429649970acc748951c36819
parent450b45084bfdab109e2e381bab4f9c583418af52
tap: accept an array of XDP buffs through sendmsg()

This patch implement TUN_MSG_PTR msg_control type. This type allows
the caller to pass an array of XDP buffs to tuntap through ptr field
of the tun_msg_control. Tap will build skb through those XDP buffers.

This will avoid lots of indirect calls thus improves the icache
utilization and allows to do XDP batched flushing when doing XDP
redirection.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/tap.c