RE: [PATCH v8 net-next 1/1] hv_sock: introduce Hyper-V Sockets

[Dexuan Cui]

> From: Joe Perches [mailto:joe@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 9:15
> On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 18:36 -0700, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/net/af_hvsock.h b/include/net/af_hvsock.h
> []
> > +#define VMBUS_RINGBUFFER_SIZE_HVSOCK_RECV (5 * PAGE_SIZE)
> > +#define VMBUS_RINGBUFFER_SIZE_HVSOCK_SEND (5 * PAGE_SIZE)
> > +
> > +#define HVSOCK_RCV_BUF_SZ
> 	VMBUS_RINGBUFFER_SIZE_HVSOCK_RECV
> > +#define HVSOCK_SND_BUF_SZ	PAGE_SIZE
> []
> > +struct hvsock_sock {
> []
> > +	struct {
> > +		struct vmpipe_proto_header hdr;
> > +		char buf[HVSOCK_SND_BUF_SZ];
> > +	} __packed send;
> > +
> > +	struct {
> > +		struct vmpipe_proto_header hdr;
> > +		char buf[HVSOCK_RCV_BUF_SZ];
> > +		unsigned int data_len;
> > +		unsigned int data_offset;
> > +	} __packed recv;
> > +};
> 
> These bufs are not page aligned and so can span pages.
> 
> Is there any value in allocating these bufs separately
> as pages instead of as a kmalloc?

The bufs are not required to be page aligned.
Here the 'hdr' and the 'buf' must be consecutive, i.e., the 'buf' must be
an array rather than a pointer: please see hvsock_send_data().

It looks to me there is no big value to make sure the 'buf' is page
aligned: on x86_64, at least it should already be 8-byte aligned due to the
adjacent channel pointer, so memcpy_from_msg() should work
enough good and in hvsock_send_data() -> vmbus_sendpacket(),
we don't copy the 'buf'.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan