RE: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add support for physically discontinuous receive buffer

[Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: KY Srinivasan
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 5:11 PM
> To: Haiyang Zhang; David Miller
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; olaf@aepfle.de; jasowang@redhat.com; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org
> Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add support for physically discontinuous
> receive buffer
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Haiyang Zhang
> > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 2:06 PM
> > To: David Miller
> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan; olaf@aepfle.de;
> > jasowang@redhat.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; driverdev-
> > devel@linuxdriverproject.org
> > Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add support for physically
> > discontinuous receive buffer
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 5:32 PM
> > > To: Haiyang Zhang
> > > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan; olaf@aepfle.de;
> > > jasowang@redhat.com; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; driverdev-
> > > devel@linuxdriverproject.org
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add support for physically
> > > discontinuous receive buffer
> > >
> > > From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> > > Date: Thu,  9 Jan 2014 14:24:47 -0800
> > >
> > > > This will allow us to use bigger receive buffer, and prevent
> > > > allocation failure due to fragmented memory.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> > > > Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> > >
> > > Not until you start using paged SKBs in netvsc_recv_callback.
> > >
> > > Whatever fragmention you think you're avoiding in the hyperv layer,
> > > you're still going to get from the:
> > >
> > > skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(net, packet->total_data_buflen);
> > >
> > > call there.
> > >
> > > This change makes no sense in isolation, therefore I'm not applying
> > > it until you also include the appropriate changes to avoid the same
> > > exact fragmentation issue in netvsc_drv.c as stated above.
> >
> > The receive buffer currently requires multiple MB of physically
> > continuous memory, and may fail to be allocated when memory is
> > fragmented. The patch is created for this issue.
> >
> > The SKB buffer is usually less than 1500 bytes or up to several KB
> > with jumbo frame, so it's much less sensitive to fragmented memory. I
> > will work on another patch to use SKB buffer with discontinuous pages.
> >
> > Could you accept this patch separately?
> 
> Today, if we try to unload and load the network driver, the load may fail
> because we may not be able to allocate the receive buffers if memory is
> fragmented. This patch specifically addresses this problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> K. Y

Dave,

So, could this patch be taken first?

Thanks,
- Haiyang