netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] [NET]: Unmap fragment page once iterator is done

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Message-Id: <20130624.014726.95868240491156656.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 24 Jun 2013 01:47:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	wedsonaf@...il.com
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [NET]: Unmap fragment page once iterator is done

From: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 23:33:48 -0700

> Callers of skb_seq_read() are currently forced to call skb_abort_seq_read()
> even when consuming all the data because the last call to skb_seq_read (the
> one that returns 0 to indicate the end) fails to unmap the last fragment page.
> 
> With this patch callers will be allowed to traverse the SKB data by calling
> skb_prepare_seq_read() once and repeatedly calling skb_seq_read() as originally
> intended (and documented in the original commit 677e90eda), that is, only call
> skb_abort_seq_read() if the sequential read is actually aborted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>

Applied.

Please format your subject lines as:

[PATCH vx] net: xxxx

Because anything inside of "[]" are deleted by the automated patch
processing tools, and we now use lowercase for the subsystem
prefixes.

Thanks.
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