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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-08-22 16:21:53 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-08-24 23:02:45 -0700 |
| commit | 4798248e4e023170e937a65a1d30fcc52496dd42 (patch) | |
| tree | c043fec145a1c2035f4c9e4ff7b4fbedc07bb1d5 /include/linux/netdevice.h | |
| parent | 4c83acbc565d53296f1731034c5041a0fbabcaeb (diff) | |
net: Add ops->ndo_xmit_flush()
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 35 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index eb73444e1bd0..220c50984688 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -782,6 +782,19 @@ typedef u16 (*select_queue_fallback_t)(struct net_device *dev, * (can also return NETDEV_TX_LOCKED iff NETIF_F_LLTX) * Required can not be NULL. * + * void (*ndo_xmit_flush)(struct net_device *dev, u16 queue); + * A driver implements this function when it wishes to support + * deferred TX queue flushing. The idea is that the expensive + * operation to trigger TX queue processing can be done after + * N calls to ndo_start_xmit rather than being done every single + * time. In this regime ndo_start_xmit will be called one or more + * times, and then a final ndo_xmit_flush call will be made to + * have the driver tell the device about the new pending TX queue + * entries. The kernel keeps track of which queues need flushing + * by monitoring skb->queue_mapping of the packets it submits to + * ndo_start_xmit. This is the queue value that will be passed + * to ndo_xmit_flush. + * * u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, * void *accel_priv, select_queue_fallback_t fallback); * Called to decide which queue to when device supports multiple @@ -1005,6 +1018,7 @@ struct net_device_ops { int (*ndo_stop)(struct net_device *dev); netdev_tx_t (*ndo_start_xmit) (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev); + void (*ndo_xmit_flush)(struct net_device *dev, u16 queue); u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, void *accel_priv, @@ -3430,6 +3444,27 @@ int __init dev_proc_init(void); #define dev_proc_init() 0 #endif +static inline netdev_tx_t __netdev_start_xmit(const struct net_device_ops *ops, + struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) +{ + netdev_tx_t ret; + u16 q; + + q = skb->queue_mapping; + ret = ops->ndo_start_xmit(skb, dev); + if (dev_xmit_complete(ret) && ops->ndo_xmit_flush) + ops->ndo_xmit_flush(dev, q); + + return ret; +} + +static inline netdev_tx_t netdev_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) +{ + const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops; + + return __netdev_start_xmit(ops, skb, dev); +} + int netdev_class_create_file_ns(struct class_attribute *class_attr, const void *ns); void netdev_class_remove_file_ns(struct class_attribute *class_attr, |