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

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Message-Id: <20111020.045933.1246070642138310107.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:59:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Ian.Campbell@...rix.com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rientjes@...gle.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: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:49:38 +0100

> Subject: [PATCH] mm: add a "struct page_frag" type containing a page, offset and length
> 
> 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.
> 
> A structure for reference sub-page regions seems like a generally useful thing
> so do so instead of adding a network subsystem specific structure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Ian.

Please respin your skbfrag patches.

Thanks again.
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