Hi Krishna.
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 03:01:35PM +0530, Krishna Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> +int dev_change_tx_batch_skb(struct net_device *dev, unsigned long
> new_batch_skb)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> + struct sk_buff_head *blist;
> +
> + if (!dev->hard_start_xmit_batch) {
> + /* Driver doesn't support batching skb API */
> + ret = -ENOTSUPP;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + /* Handle invalid argument */
> + if (new_batch_skb < 0) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> + }
It is unsigned, how can it be less than zero?
And actually you use it just like a binary flag (casted to/from u32 in
the code, btw), so why not using ethtool_value directly here?
> + /* Check if new value is same as the current */
> + if (!!dev->skb_blist == !!new_batch_skb)
> + goto out;
> +
> + if (new_batch_skb &&
> + (blist = kmalloc(sizeof *blist, GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + spin_lock(&dev->queue_lock);
> + if (new_batch_skb) {
> + skb_queue_head_init(blist);
> + dev->skb_blist = blist;
> + } else
> + free_batching(dev);
> + spin_unlock(&dev->queue_lock);
This needs bh lock too, since blist is accessed by qdisc_restart.
> +int dev_add_skb_to_blist(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
> +{
> + if (!list_empty(&ptype_all))
> + dev_queue_xmit_nit(skb, dev);
> +
> + if (netif_needs_gso(dev, skb)) {
> + if (unlikely(dev_gso_segment(skb))) {
> + kfree(skb);
> + return 0;
> + }
> +
> + if (skb->next) {
> + int count = 0;
> +
> + do {
> + struct sk_buff *nskb = skb->next;
> +
> + skb->next = nskb->next;
> + __skb_queue_tail(dev->skb_blist, nskb);
> + count++;
> + } while (skb->next);
Is it possible to move list without iterating over each entry?
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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