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@ 2011-08-30  9:17 Ian Campbell
  2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 01/14] 3c59x: convert to SKB paged frag API Ian Campbell
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From: Ian Campbell @ 2011-08-30  9:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev

The following series converts the first batch of network drivers to the
SKB pages fragment API introduced in 131ea6675c76. I expect there will
be ~4 similarly sized batches to convert all the drivers over.

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

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2011-08-30  9:17 [PATCH 0/14] skb fragment API: convert network drivers (part I) Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 01/14] 3c59x: convert to SKB paged frag API Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 02/14] 8139cp: " Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 03/14] acenic: " Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 04/14] atl1c: " Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:34   ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update ATLX driver maintainers Ian Campbell
2011-08-30 11:25     ` Franco Fichtner
2011-08-30 11:31       ` Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 05/14] atl1e: convert to SKB paged frag API Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 06/14] atlx: " Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 07/14] benet: " Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 08/14] bna: " Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:42   ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update BNA 10G Maintainer Ian Campbell
2011-08-31  0:44     ` David Miller
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 09/14] cassini: convert to SKB paged frag API Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 10/14] intel: " Ian Campbell
2011-08-30 10:52   ` Jeff Kirsher
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 11/14] enic: " Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:41   ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update Cisco VIC driver maintainers Ian Campbell
2011-08-30 11:42     ` David Wang (dwang2)
2011-08-31  0:43     ` David Miller
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 12/14] forcedeth: convert to SKB paged frag API Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 13/14] gianfar: " Ian Campbell
2011-08-30  9:18 ` [PATCH 14/14] greth: " Ian Campbell
2011-08-30 22:05 ` [PATCH 0/14] skb fragment API: convert network drivers (part I) David Miller

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