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)
commit0efac27791ee068075d80f07c55a229b1335ce12
tree91a1d78027c8581e429649970acc748951c36819
parent043d222f93ab8c76b56a3b315cd8692e35affb6c
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