linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: add a "struct page_frag" type containing a page, offset and length

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Date:	Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:51:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rientjes@...gle.com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ian.campbell@...rix.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org,
	jaxboe@...ionio.com, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add a "struct page_frag" type containing a page,
 offset and length

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:49:35 -0700 (PDT)

> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, David Miller wrote:
> 
>> >> A few network drivers currently use skb_frag_struct for this purpose but I have
>> >> patches which add additional fields and semantics there which these other uses
>> >> do not want.
>> >> 
>> > 
>> > Is this patch a part of a larger series that actually uses 
>> > struct page_frag?  Probably a good idea to post them so we know it doesn't 
>> > just lie there dormant.
>> 
>> See:
>> 
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/118693/
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/118694/
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/118695/
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/118700/
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/118696/
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/118699/
>> 
>> This is a replacement for patch #1 in that series.
>> 
> 
> Ok, let's add Andrew to the thread so this can go through -mm in 
> preparation for that series.

It doesn't usually work like that, net-next is usually one of the first
trees that Stephen pulls into -next, so this kind of simple dependency should
go into my tree if the -mm developers give it an ACK and are OK with it.

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