netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/14] skb fragment API: convert network drivers (part I)

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Message-Id: <20110830.180539.1736757387915487119.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:05:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Ian.Campbell@...rix.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] skb fragment API: convert network drivers (part I)

From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:17:27 +0100

> The following series converts the first batch of network drivers to the
> SKB pages fragment API introduced in 131ea6675c76. I expect there will
> be ~4 similarly sized batches to convert all the drivers over.
> 
> 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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