tuntap: accept an array of XDP buffs through sendmsg()
This patch implement TUN_MSG_PTR msg_control type. This type allows the caller to pass an array of XDP buffs to tuntap through ptr field of the tun_msg_control. If an XDP program is attached, tuntap can run XDP program directly. If not, tuntap will build skb and do a fast receiving since part of the work has been done by vhost_net. This will avoid lots of indirect calls thus improves the icache utilization and allows to do XDP batched flushing when doing XDP redirection. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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