From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: [PATCH 0/4] skb fragment API: convert network core and protocols Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:44:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1314092683.10283.21.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Return-path: Received: from smtp.ctxuk.citrix.com ([62.200.22.115]:59263 "EHLO SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754463Ab1HWJpD (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:45:03 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The following series converts the net core and protocol stacks to the SKB pages fragment API introduced in 131ea6675c76. This is part of my series to enable visibility into SKB paged fragment's lifecycles, [0] contains some more background and rationale but basically the completed series will allow entities which inject pages into the networking stack to receive a notification when the stack has really finished with those pages (i.e. including retransmissions, clones, pull-ups etc) and not just when the original skb is finished with, which is beneficial to many subsystems which wish to inject pages into the network stack without giving up full ownership of those page's lifecycle. It implements something broadly along the lines of what was described in [1]. Cheers, Ian. [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=131072801125521&w=2 [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=130925719513084&w=2