Re: [V2 PATCH 2/9] macvtap: zerocopy: fix truesize underestimation

From: Shirley Ma
Date: Wed May 16 2012 - 11:04:18 EST


On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 11:04 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
> >> index bd4a70d..7cb2684 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
> >> @@ -519,6 +519,7 @@ static int zerocopy_sg_from_iovec(struct
> sk_buff
> >> *skb, const struct iovec *from,
> >> struct page *page[MAX_SKB_FRAGS];
> >> int num_pages;
> >> unsigned long base;
> >> + unsigned long truesize;
> >>
> >> len = from->iov_len - offset;
> >> if (!len) {
> >> @@ -533,10 +534,11 @@ static int zerocopy_sg_from_iovec(struct
> sk_buff
> >> *skb, const struct iovec *from,
> >> (num_pages> MAX_SKB_FRAGS -
> >> skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags))
> >> /* put_page is in skb free */
> >> return -EFAULT;
> >> + truesize = size * PAGE_SIZE;
> > Here should be truesize = size * PAGE_SIZE - offset, right?
> >
>
> We get the whole user page, so need to account them all. Also this is
> aligned with skb_copy_ubufs().

Then this would double count the size of "first" offset left from
previous copy, both skb->len and truesize.

Thanks
Shirley

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