Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] net: Add support for networking over Thunderbolt cable

From	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] net: Add support for networking over Thunderbolt cable
Date	2017-09-27 20:30 +0200
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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:27:02 +0300

> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 09:27:09AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
>> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:42:38 +0300
>> 
>> > Using build_skb() then would require to allocate larger buffer, that
>> > includes NET_SKB_PAD + SKB_DATA_ALIGN(skb_shared_info) and that exceeds
>> > page size. Is this something supported by build_skb()? It was not clear
>> > to me based on the code and other users of build_skb() but I may be
>> > missing something.
>> 
>> You need NET_SKB_PAD before and SKB_DATA_ALIGN(skb_shared_info) afterwards.
>> An order 1 page, if that's what you need, should work just fine.
> 
> I mean in order to fit a single ThunderboltIP frame, I would need to
> allocate NET_SKB_PAD+4096+SKB_DATA_ALIGN(skb_shared_info) size buffer.

Which would be an order 1 page or 8192 bytes.

> Is that still fine for build_skb()? Also can I use that with
> skb_add_rx_frag() which seem to take single page?

Again, an order 1 page should work fine.

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Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] net: Add support for networking over  Thunderbolt cable David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-09-27 06:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] net: Add support for networking over  Thunderbolt cable Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2017-09-27 15:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] net: Add support for networking over  Thunderbolt cable David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-09-27 18:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] net: Add support for networking over  Thunderbolt cable Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> - 2017-09-27 19:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] net: Add support for networking over  Thunderbolt cable David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-09-27 20:30 +0200

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