netdev - Re: [PATCH 68/75] hv: netvsc: convert to SKB paged frag API.

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Message-ID: <1313761587.5010.365.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:46:27 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...citrix.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	Abhishek Kane <v-abkane@...rosoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 68/75] hv: netvsc: convert to SKB paged frag API.

On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 14:37 +0100, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:27:40PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >  	/* usually there's just one frag */
> > -	skb_frag_set_page(skb, 0, gl->frags[0].page);
> > +	skb_frag_set_page(skb, 0, gl->frags[0].page.p);	/* XXX */
> 
> There are bunch of new /* XXX */ comments.  What are they for?

They are a reminder referring to the dilemma I mentioned in the intro
mail. Basically that ".p" is ugly because gl->frags[0].page isn't
actually a paged fragment, it's just that this driver uses skb_frag_t in
its internal datastructures.

Ian.

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