On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:46:25 -0300 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <casca...@redhat.com> wrote:
> So, Jesper, please take into consideration that this pool design > would rather be per device. Otherwise, we allow some device to write > into another's device/driver memory. Yes, that was my intended use. I want to have a page-pool per device. I actually, want to go as far as a page-pool per NIC HW RX-ring queue. Because the other use-case for the page-pool is zero-copy RX. The NIC HW trick is that we today can create a HW filter in the NIC (via ethtool) and place that traffic into a separate RX queue in the NIC. Lets say matching NFS traffic or guest traffic. Then we can allow RX zero-copy of these pages, into the application/guest, somehow binding it to RX queue, e.g. introducing a "cross-domain-id" in the page-pool page that need to match. -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer
