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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tun: make tun_build_skb() thread safe
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On 2017年08月17日 00:55, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:14:33PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>>
>> tun_build_skb() is not thread safe since it uses per queue page frag,
>> this will break things when multiple threads are sending through same
>> queue. Switch to use per-thread generator (no lock involved).
>>
>> Fixes: 66ccbc9c87c2 ("tap: use build_skb() for small packet")
>> Tested-by: Jason Wang<jasowang@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang<jasowang@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin<mst@redhat.com>
>
> Jason, given the switch to task_frag, would it be worth it to look at
> using higher order allocs along the lines of
> 5640f7685831e088fe6c2e1f863a6805962f8e81 as well?
>

I think we've already used high order, don't we?

Thanks

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