On 02/22, Mina Almasry wrote:
> Augment dmabuf binding to be able to handle TX. Additional to all the RX
> binding, we also create tx_vec needed for the TX path.
> 
> Provide API for sendmsg to be able to send dmabufs bound to this device:
> 
> - Provide a new dmabuf_tx_cmsg which includes the dmabuf to send from.
> - MSG_ZEROCOPY with SCM_DEVMEM_DMABUF cmsg indicates send from dma-buf.
> 
> Devmem is uncopyable, so piggyback off the existing MSG_ZEROCOPY
> implementation, while disabling instances where MSG_ZEROCOPY falls back
> to copying.
> 
> We additionally pipe the binding down to the new
> zerocopy_fill_skb_from_devmem which fills a TX skb with net_iov netmems
> instead of the traditional page netmems.
> 
> We also special case skb_frag_dma_map to return the dma-address of these
> dmabuf net_iovs instead of attempting to map pages.
> 
> Based on work by Stanislav Fomichev <s...@fomichev.me>. A lot of the meat
> of the implementation came from devmem TCP RFC v1[1], which included the
> TX path, but Stan did all the rebasing on top of netmem/net_iov.
> 
> Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <s...@fomichev.me>
> Signed-off-by: Kaiyuan Zhang <kaiyu...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrym...@google.com>

Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <s...@fomichev.me>

(assuming Eric/Willem will also take a look at this)

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