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Kevin Laatz committed c05cd364581
xsk: add support to allow unaligned chunk placement Currently, addresses are chunk size aligned. This means, we are very restricted in terms of where we can place chunk within the umem. For example, if we have a chunk size of 2k, then our chunks can only be placed at 0,2k,4k,6k,8k... and so on (ie. every 2k starting from 0). This patch introduces the ability to use unaligned chunks. With these changes, we are no longer bound to having to place chunks at a 2k (or whatever your chunk size is) interval. Since we are no longer dealing with aligned chunks, they can now cross page boundaries. Checks for page contiguity have been added in order to keep track of which pages are followed by a physically contiguous page. Signed-off-by: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>