netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v7 01/19] Add a new structure for skb buffer from external.

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Message-ID: <20100617112119.GB1515@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:21:19 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	"Xin, Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@...el.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mst@...hat.com" <mst@...hat.com>, "mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"jdike@...ux.intel.com" <jdike@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v7 01/19] Add a new structure for skb buffer from
	external.

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 04:58:36PM +0800, Xin, Xiaohui wrote:
> 
> Herbert,
> In this way, I think we should create 3 functions at least in drivers to allocate rx buffer, to receive the rx buffers, and to clean the rx buffers.
> 
> We can also have another way here. We can provide a function to only substitute 
> alloc_page(), and a function to release the pages when cleaning the rx buffers.

Yes that's exactly what I had in mind.

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