Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/6] virtio/console: Add splice_write support

[Masami Hiramatsu]

(2012/08/09 18:00), Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Tue) 24 Jul 2012 [11:37:07], Yoshihiro YUNOMAE wrote:
>> From: Masami Hiramatsu <address@hidden>
>>
>> Enable to use splice_write from pipe to virtio-console port.
>> This steals pages from pipe and directly send it to host.
>>
>> Note that this may accelerate only the guest to host path.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Amit Shah <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <address@hidden>
>> ---
> 
>> +/* Faster zero-copy write by splicing */
>> +static ssize_t port_fops_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
>> +                                  struct file *filp, loff_t *ppos,
>> +                                  size_t len, unsigned int flags)
>> +{
>> +    struct port *port = filp->private_data;
>> +    struct sg_list sgl;
>> +    ssize_t ret;
>> +    struct splice_desc sd = {
>> +            .total_len = len,
>> +            .flags = flags,
>> +            .pos = *ppos,
>> +            .u.data = &sgl,
>> +    };
>> +
>> +    sgl.n = 0;
>> +    sgl.len = 0;
>> +    sgl.sg = kmalloc(sizeof(struct scatterlist) * MAX_SPLICE_PAGES,
>> +                     GFP_ATOMIC);
> 
> Do you expect this function to be called from interrupt context?

No, not at all. Oops, that should be GFP_KERNEL...

Thank you for pointing it out.

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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: address@hidden