netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 1/5] net: Add netdev Rx page allocation function

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Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:26:20 -0800
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	leedom@...lsio.com, hariprasad@...lsio.com,
	donald.c.skidmore@...el.com, oliver@...kum.org, balbi@...com,
	matthew.vick@...el.com, mgorman@...e.de,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/5] net: Add netdev Rx page allocation function

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Alexander Duyck
<alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com> wrote:
> This patch implements __netdev_alloc_pages and __netdev_alloc_page.  These
> are meant to replace the __skb_alloc_pages and __skb_alloc_page functions.
> The reason for doing this is that it occurred to me that __skb_alloc_page is
> supposed to be passed an sk_buff pointer, but it is NULL in all cases where
> it is used.  Worse is that in the case of ixgbe it is passed NULL via the
> sk_buff pointer in the rx_buffer info structure which means the compiler is
> not correctly stripping it out.

These netdev_*() have nothing related with struct net_device, please
find a better prefix. Also, they are in skbuff.h, you perhaps want to move them
to netdevice.h.
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