Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] macvtap: TX zero copy between guest and host kernel

From: Avi Kivity <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:12:23 +0200

On 09/14/2010 05:17 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Shirley Ma<[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:48:03 -0700
>
>> +		base = (unsigned long)from->iov_base + offset1;
>> +		size = ((base&  ~PAGE_MASK) + len + ~PAGE_MASK)>>  PAGE_SHIFT;
>> +		num_pages = get_user_pages_fast(base, size, 0,&page[i]);
>> +		if ((num_pages != size) ||
>> +		    (num_pages>  MAX_SKB_FRAGS - skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags))
>> +			/* put_page is in skb free */
>> +			return -EFAULT;
> What keeps the user from writing to these pages in it's address space
> after the write call returns?
>
> A write() return of success means:
>
> 	"I wrote what you gave to me"
>
> not
>
> 	"I wrote what you gave to me, oh and BTW don't touch these
>           pages for a while."
>
> In fact "a while" isn't even defined in any way, as there is no way
> for the write() invoker to know when the networking card is done with
> those pages.

That's what io_submit() is for.  Then io_getevents() tells you what "a 
while" actually was.

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