netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] pskb

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Message-Id: <20160425.165443.811025678894769195.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:54:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] pskb_extract() helper function.

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:36:34 -0700

> This patchset follows up on the discussion in
>  https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg105090.html
> 
> For RDS-TCP, we have to deal with the full gamut of
> nonlinear sk_buffs, including all the frag_list variants.
> Also, the parent skb has to remain unchanged, while the clone
> is queued for Rx on the PF_RDS socket. 
> 
> Patch 1 of this patchset adds a pskb_extract() function that 
> does all this without the redundant memcpy's in pskb_expand_head() 
> and __pskb_pull_tail().
> 
> v2: Marcelo Leitner review comments

Series applied, thanks.