From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753297Ab1HXSVe (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:21:34 -0400 Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com ([141.146.126.227]:51078 "EHLO acsinet15.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752697Ab1HXSVd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:21:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:21:13 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Ian Campbell Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , =?utf-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBNaXJvc8WCYXc=?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/75] net: add APIs for manipulating skb page fragments. Message-ID: <20110824182113.GF15675@dumpdata.com> References: <1313760393.5010.356.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <1313760467-8598-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1313760467-8598-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090201.4E554126.0118:SCFMA922111,ss=1,re=-4.000,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:26:33PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > The primary aim is to add skb_frag_(ref|unref) in order to remove the use of > bare get/put_page on SKB pages fragments and to isolate users from subsequent > changes to the skb_frag_t data structure. > > Also included are helper APIs for passing a paged fragment to kmap and > dma_map_page since I was seeing the same pattern a lot. A helper for > pci_map_page is ommitted due to Michał Mirosław's recommendation that users > should transition to pci_map_page instead. You mean "transition to dma_map_page instead." ?