linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/32] net: packet split receive api

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Message-Id: <20081007.142323.97501781.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:23:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@....uio.no,
	dlezcano@...ibm.com, penberg@...helsinki.fi, neilb@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/32] net: packet split receive api

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:05:21 +0200

> Add some packet-split receive hooks.
> 
> For one this allows to do NUMA node affine page allocs. Later on these hooks
> will be extended to do emergency reserve allocations for fragments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>

The individual driver changes get a bunch of rejects in the net-next-2.6
tree, and you also missed some drivers such as NIU that also should use
these new interfaces.

So what I did for now was add just the non-driver parts that add the
interfaces themselves.

Thanks!

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