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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-03-14 17:07:33 +0300 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-03-14 17:07:33 +0300 |
| commit | b70366e5d31788650b2a5cec5cd13ea80ac7e44a (patch) | |
| tree | d972ffd190111d699200448494fda333d28b2486 /Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | |
| parent | f42e181935d5e5670c87d31ae48063a495bbacae (diff) | |
| parent | db6ccf23e8ba40fc2e8914ec9c0eb950df71d9fe (diff) | |
| download | linux-b70366e5d31788650b2a5cec5cd13ea80ac7e44a.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'doc-4.11-images' of git://git.lwn.net/linux into drm-misc-next
Pointer for Markus's image conversion work.
We need this so we can merge all the pretty drm graphs for 4.12.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
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 |