On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Vladimir Kondratiev
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am looking for ideas how can one process AMSDU in the software, without 
> copying data.
> Current implementation like ieee80211_amsdu_to_8023s() do copy packet data.
>
> Assume I got in the driver, MPDU that is AMSDU containing several MSDU's.
> It is in the single memory buffer that was allocated for DMA.
> Can I construct skb's per MSDU with minimal data copy, having most of the
> original data in place? Any ideas for this?
>

You already have the TCP header inside the MSDUs. I guess all you need
to do is to clone the skb and update the offset in the frag?
Note that tn that case, the page will be shared. I am really not an
expert in all this kind of things.

Note that iwlwifi can technically have 2 Rx packets in the same page,
we handle that.

> Thanks, Vladimir.
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