>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:eric.duma...@gmail.com]
>Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 10:56 PM
>To: Xin, Xiaohui
>Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org;
>m...@redhat.com; mi...@elte.hu; da...@davemloft.net; 
>herb...@gondor.apana.org.au;
>jd...@linux.intel.com
>Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v7 11/19] Use callback to deal with skb_release_data() 
>specially.
>
>Le samedi 05 juin 2010 à 18:14 +0800, xiaohui....@intel.com a écrit :
>> From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui....@intel.com>
>>
>> If buffer is external, then use the callback to destruct
>> buffers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui....@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhao Yu <yzhao81...@gmail.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jeff Dike <jd...@linux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>  net/core/skbuff.c |   11 +++++++++++
>>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
>> index 37587f0..418457c 100644
>> --- a/net/core/skbuff.c
>> +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
>> @@ -385,6 +385,11 @@ static void skb_clone_fraglist(struct sk_buff *skb)
>>
>>  static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
>>  {
>> +    /* check if the skb has external buffers, we have use destructor_arg
>> +     * here to indicate
>> +     */
>> +    struct skb_external_page *ext_page = skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg;
>> +
>
>Oh well. This is v7 of your series, and nobody complained yet ?
>
>This is a new cache miss on a _critical_ path.

Ok, I would remove the declaration here to avoid the new cache miss.

>
>
>>      if (!skb->cloned ||
>>          !atomic_sub_return(skb->nohdr ? (1 << SKB_DATAREF_SHIFT) + 1 : 1,
>>                             &skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref)) {
>> @@ -397,6 +402,12 @@ static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)
>>              if (skb_has_frags(skb))
>>                      skb_drop_fraglist(skb);
>>
>> +            /* if the skb has external buffers, use destructor here,
>> +             * since after that skb->head will be kfree, in case skb->head
>> +             * from external buffer cannot use kfree to destroy.
>> +             */
>
>Why not deferring here the access to skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg ?

And references skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg here.

>
>> +            if (dev_is_mpassthru(skb->dev) && ext_page && ext_page->dtor)
>> +                    ext_page->dtor(ext_page);
>>              kfree(skb->head);
>>      }
>>  }
>
>if (dev_is_mpassthru(skb->dev)) {
>       struct skb_external_page *ext_page =
>                               skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg;
>       if (ext_page && ext_page->dtor)
>               ext_page->dtor(ext_page);
>}
>
>destructor_arg should me moved before frags[] if you really want to use it.

Thanks for the patch. But why destructor_arg before frags[] is better than 
after frags[]?
skb_release_data() will reference both of them........

>
>diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
>index bf243fc..b136d90 100644
>--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
>+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
>@@ -202,10 +202,11 @@ struct skb_shared_info {
>         */
>        atomic_t        dataref;
>
>-       skb_frag_t      frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS];
>        /* Intermediate layers must ensure that destructor_arg
>         * remains valid until skb destructor */
>        void *          destructor_arg;
>+
>+       skb_frag_t      frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS];
> };
>
> /* We divide dataref into two halves.  The higher 16 bits hold references
>
>

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