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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index daa015af16a0..f3b9e507ab05 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ TPACKET_V1 --> TPACKET_V2: (void *)hdr + TPACKET_ALIGN(sizeof(struct tpacket_hdr)) TPACKET_V2 --> TPACKET_V3: - - Flexible buffer implementation: + - Flexible buffer implementation for RX_RING: 1. Blocks can be configured with non-static frame-size 2. Read/poll is at a block-level (as opposed to packet-level) 3. Added poll timeout to avoid indefinite user-space wait @@ -574,7 +574,12 @@ TPACKET_V2 --> TPACKET_V3: 4.1 block::timeout 4.2 tpkt_hdr::sk_rxhash - RX Hash data available in user space - - Currently only RX_RING available + - TX_RING semantics are conceptually similar to TPACKET_V2; + use tpacket3_hdr instead of tpacket2_hdr, and TPACKET3_HDRLEN + instead of TPACKET2_HDRLEN. In the current implementation, + the tp_next_offset field in the tpacket3_hdr MUST be set to + zero, indicating that the ring does not hold variable sized frames. + Packets with non-zero values of tp_next_offset will be dropped. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + AF_PACKET fanout mode |