Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 5/7] tun: support receiving skb through msg_control | From | Jason Wang <> | Date | Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:10:11 +0800 |
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On 2017年03月30日 23:06, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 03:22:28PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> This patch makes tun_recvmsg() can receive from skb from its caller >> through msg_control. Vhost_net will be the first user. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang<jasowang@redhat.com> > Do we need to bother with tun? I didn't realize one > can even use that with vhost. What would be the point of > all the virtio header stuff dealing with checksums etc? > > Even if you see a use-case is it worth optimizing? > >
It's for tap in fact. I use "tun" just because we have already had a tap.c which is used by macvtap.
Thanks
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