Re: [RFC v5] tcp: Replace TCP buffer structure by an iovec array

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:01:37 +0200
Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> wrote:

> To be able to provide pointers to TCP headers and IP headers without
> worrying about alignment in the structure, split the structure into
> several arrays and point to each part of the frame using an iovec array.
> 
> Using iovec also allows us to simply ignore the first entry when the
> vnet length header is not needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     v5:
>       - reformat MSS4/MSS6 macros
>       - update structures comments
>       - use IP_MAX_MTU
>       - rename TCP_IOV_TAP to TCP_IOV_VLEN
>       - s/ethernet/Ethernet/
>       - split loop in tcp_sock4_iov_init() and tcp_sock6_iov_init()
>       - use intermediate variable vnet_len in tcp_data_to_tap()

Applied.

-- 
Stefano