Re: [PATCH v4 21/42] virtio_net: get rid of virtio_net_hdr/skb_vnet_hdr

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Wed Nov 26 2014 - 07:51:08 EST


On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 18:42:53 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> virtio 1.0 doesn't use virtio_net_hdr anymore, and in fact, it's not
> really useful since virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf includes that as the first
> field anyway.
>
> Let's drop it, precalculate header len and store within vi instead.
>
> This way we can also remove struct skb_vnet_hdr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
>

> @@ -260,13 +256,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct virtnet_info *vi,
>
> hdr = skb_vnet_hdr(skb);
>
> - if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs) {
> - hdr_len = sizeof hdr->mhdr;
> - hdr_padded_len = sizeof hdr->mhdr;
> - } else {
> - hdr_len = sizeof hdr->hdr;
> + hdr_len = vi->hdr_len;
> + if (vi->mergeable_rx_bufs)
> + hdr_padded_len = sizeof *hdr;

sizeof without () looks weird to me.

> + else
> hdr_padded_len = sizeof(struct padded_vnet_hdr);
> - }
>
> memcpy(hdr, p, hdr_len);
>

Otherwise:

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>

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