netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Reduce size of efx_rx

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Message-Id: <20110301.122459.183051942.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:24:59 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Reduce size of efx_rx_buffer by
 unionising skb and page

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:21:30 +0000

> From: Steve Hodgson <shodgson@...arflare.com>
> 
> [bwh: Forward-ported to net-next-2.6.]
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

I'm going to apply this, but you can take this further by making
the buffer an "unsigned long" and encode the pointer plus a one-bit
binary state there to indicate what it is.
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