aoe: zero copy write 1 of 2

Avoid memory copy on writes.
(This patch depends on fixes in patch 9 to follow.)

Although skb->len should not be set when working with linear skbuffs,
the skb->tail pointer maintained by skb_put/skb_trim is not relevant
to what happens when the skb_fill_page_desc function is called.  This
issue was raised without comment in linux-kernel and netdev earlier
this month:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/446474/
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/45444/

So until there is something analogous to skb_put that works for
zero-copy write skbuffs, we will do what the other callers of
skb_fill_page_desc are doing.

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
index 507c3779988..fa2d804b266 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
@@ -107,11 +107,7 @@ struct frame {
         ulong waited;
         struct buf *buf;
         char *bufaddr;
-        int writedatalen;
-        int ndata;
-
-        /* largest possible */
-        unsigned char data[sizeof(struct aoe_hdr) + sizeof(struct aoe_atahdr)];
+        struct sk_buff *skb;
 };
 
 struct aoedev {
@@ -157,6 +153,7 @@ void aoecmd_cfg(ushort aoemajor, unsigned char aoeminor);
 void aoecmd_ata_rsp(struct sk_buff *);
 void aoecmd_cfg_rsp(struct sk_buff *);
 void aoecmd_sleepwork(void *vp);
+struct sk_buff *new_skb(ulong);
 
 int aoedev_init(void);
 void aoedev_exit(void);