From: Xuan Zhuo <[email protected]>
In some cases, we hope to construct skb directly based on the existing
memory without copying data. In this case, the page will be placed
directly in the skb, and the linear space of skb is empty. But
unfortunately, many the network card does not support this operation.
For example Mellanox Technologies MT27710 Family [ConnectX-4 Lx] will
get the following error message:
mlx5_core 0000:3b:00.1 eth1: Error cqe on cqn 0x817, ci 0x8,
qn 0x1dbb, opcode 0xd, syndrome 0x1, vendor syndrome 0x68
00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000030: 00 00 00 00 60 10 68 01 0a 00 1d bb 00 0f 9f d2
WQE DUMP: WQ size 1024 WQ cur size 0, WQE index 0xf, len: 64
00000000: 00 00 0f 0a 00 1d bb 03 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00
00000010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000020: 00 00 00 2b 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 05 9e e3 08 00
00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
mlx5_core 0000:3b:00.1 eth1: ERR CQE on SQ: 0x1dbb
So a priv_flag is added here to indicate whether the network card
supports this feature.
Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Alexander Lobakin <[email protected]>
[ alobakin: give a new flag more detailed description ]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 2c1a642ecdc0..1186ba901ad3 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1518,6 +1518,8 @@ struct net_device_ops {
* @IFF_FAILOVER_SLAVE_BIT: device is lower dev of a failover master device
* @IFF_L3MDEV_RX_HANDLER_BIT: only invoke the rx handler of L3 master device
* @IFF_LIVE_RENAME_OK_BIT: rename is allowed while device is up and running
+ * @IFF_TX_SKB_NO_LINEAR_BIT: device/driver is capable of xmitting frames with
+ * skb_headlen(skb) == 0 (data starts from frag0)
*
* @NETDEV_PRIV_FLAG_COUNT: total priv flags count
*/
@@ -1553,6 +1555,7 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
IFF_FAILOVER_SLAVE_BIT,
IFF_L3MDEV_RX_HANDLER_BIT,
IFF_LIVE_RENAME_OK_BIT,
+ IFF_TX_SKB_NO_LINEAR_BIT,
NETDEV_PRIV_FLAG_COUNT,
};
@@ -1595,6 +1598,7 @@ static_assert(sizeof(netdev_priv_flags_t) * BITS_PER_BYTE >=
#define IFF_FAILOVER_SLAVE __IFF(FAILOVER_SLAVE)
#define IFF_L3MDEV_RX_HANDLER __IFF(L3MDEV_RX_HANDLER)
#define IFF_LIVE_RENAME_OK __IFF(LIVE_RENAME_OK)
+#define IFF_TX_SKB_NO_LINEAR __IFF(TX_SKB_NO_LINEAR)
/**
* struct net_device - The DEVICE structure.
--
2.30.1