netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/9] skb fragment API: convert non-network drivers

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Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:39:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Ian.Campbell@...rix.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...n-fcoe.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] skb fragment API: convert non-network drivers

From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:28:01 +0100

> The following series converts some non-network drivers to the SKB pages
> fragment API introduced in 131ea6675c76. Included are ATM, Infiniband,
> and FibreChannel. I also included the broadcom network drivers since I
> was touching the related FC driver.
> 
> This is part of my series to enable visibility into SKB paged fragment's
> lifecycles, [0] contains some more background and rationale but
> basically the completed series will allow entities which inject pages
> into the networking stack to receive a notification when the stack has
> really finished with those pages (i.e. including retransmissions,
> clones, pull-ups etc) and not just when the original skb is finished
> with, which is beneficial to many subsystems which wish to inject pages
> into the network stack without giving up full ownership of those page's
> lifecycle. It implements something broadly along the lines of what was
> described in [1].

All applied, thanks Ian.
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