From: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare•com>
To: <matvejchikov@gmail•com>, <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Cc: <Aleksey.Baulin@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: A couple of questions about the SKB fragments
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 12:13:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <572B2AEE.1020802@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKh5naYrZtf5y_Qw93G+GbxRVucsk4nbuiaguHcghtKEL=yQBw@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/05/16 08:40, Ilya Matveychikov wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> While working with fragmented SKBs we've got stuck with the following:
> - is it possible for an SKB fragment in skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list to
> be fragmented too (i.e. to have SKBs in frag_list)?
> - do skb->len and skb->data_len contain the whole SKB length,
> including the length of all fragments (not only the paged parts)?
>
> Is there any docs except the kernel sources itself to refer to?
davem has some docs up at http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/skb.html and
http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/skb_data.html
In particular note the following:
"The frag_list is used to maintain a chain of SKBs organized for
fragmentation purposes, it is _not_ used for maintaining paged data."
So my reading would suggest there is no way to multiple-layer-fragment
an SKB; the frags are page pointers and offsets, not entire sk_buff
structs in their own right.
-Ed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-05 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-05 7:40 A couple of questions about the SKB fragments Ilya Matveychikov
2016-05-05 11:13 ` Edward Cree [this message]
2016-05-05 12:58 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-05-07 9:21 ` Ilya Matveychikov
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