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Message-Id: <20110922.160545.526551451487549432.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:05:45 -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 III) From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:53:16 +0100 > The following series converts the third 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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