Currently, skbs generated by pktgen always have their reference count
incremented before transmission, causing their reference count to be
always greater than 1, leading to two issues:
1. Only the code paths for shared skbs can be tested.
2. In certain situations, skbs can only be released by pktgen.
To enhance testing comprehensiveness, we are introducing the "SHARED"
flag to indicate whether an SKB is shared. This flag is enabled by
default, aligning with the current behavior. However, disabling this
flag allows skbs with a reference count of 1 to be transmitted.
So we can test non-shared skbs and code paths where skbs are released
within the stack.
Signed-off-by: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230920125658.46978-2-liangchen.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Currently, the pktgen.rst documentation doesn't cover the latest pktgen
sample usage options such as count and IPv6, and so on. Also, this
documentation includes the old sample scripts which are no longer use
because it was removed by the commit a4b6ade835 ("samples/pktgen :
remove remaining old pktgen sample scripts")
Thus, this commit documents pktgen sample usage using the latest options
and removes old sample scripts, and fixes a minor typo.
Signed-off-by: Juhee Kang <claudiajkang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- add SPDX header;
- adjust title markup;
- use bold markups on a few places;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Liang Chen