netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Convert skb_frag_t to bio

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:48:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     willy@...radead.org
Cc:     hch@....de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Convert skb_frag_t to bio_vec

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:08:24 -0700

> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
> 
> The skb_frag_t and bio_vec are fundamentally the same (page, offset,
> length) tuple.  This patch series unifies the two, leaving the
> skb_frag_t typedef in place.  This has the immediate advantage that
> we already have iov_iter support for bvecs and don't need to add
> support for iterating skbuffs.  It enables a long-term plan to use
> bvecs more broadly within the kernel and should make network-storage
> drivers able to do less work converting between skbuffs and biovecs.
> 
> It will consume more memory on 32-bit kernels.  If that proves
> problematic, we can look at ways of addressing it.
> 
> v3: Rebase on latest Linus with net-next merged.
>   - Reorder the uncontroversial 'Use skb accessors' patches first so you
>     can apply just those two if you want to hold off on the full
>     conversion.
>   - Convert all the users of 'struct skb_frag_struct' to skb_frag_t.

Series applied, will push out to net-next after build testing.

Thanks.