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Message-ID: <20130715172321.61e8c237@skate>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:23:21 +0200
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: convert mvneta to build_skb()

Dear Willy Tarreau,

On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 17:12:40 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> > 3.11-rc1 is now out. Do you intend to resend an updated version of your
> > patches, according to the discussions we had?
> 
> Yes I'll do. This week-end I have tried to pre-compute the frag_size.
> The performance did not change, nor the driver size, but the code is
> cleaner and more readable (in my opinion).

Ok.

> I have noticed your recent patches to support big-endian, and since
> we risk to get conflicts by touching similar areas, I guess you'll
> prefer to have a clean patch series that applies well.

The big-endian support is pretty light in terms of driver changes, so
if there are conflicts, they should be easy to solve.

> I'm still checking a little bit what can be easily improved (if any)
> and will resend.

Excellent, thanks!

Thomas
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