From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] skb fragment API: convert network drivers (part I)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:05:39 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110830.180539.1736757387915487119.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314695847.10283.102.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:17:27 +0100
> 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].
All applied, thanks Ian.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-30 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 ` David Miller [this message]
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