netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/5] inet: Add ip_make_skb and ip_send

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Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:31:40 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, rick.jones2@...com,
	therbert@...gle.com, wsommerfeld@...gle.com,
	daniel.baluta@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] inet: Add ip_make_skb and ip_send_skb

Le lundi 28 février 2011 à 19:41 +0800, Herbert Xu a écrit :
> inet: Add ip_make_skb and ip_send_skb
> 
> This patch adds the helper ip_make_skb which is like ip_append_data
> and ip_push_pending_frames all rolled into one, except that it does
> not send the skb produced.  The sending part is carried out by
> ip_send_skb, which the transport protocol can call after it has
> tweaked the skb.
> 
> It is meant to be called in cases where corking is not used should
> have a one-to-one correspondence to sendmsg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>



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