From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] net: Rename skb_frag_t size to bv_len
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 04:41:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190724114120.GT363@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b47b0b19e5594b97af62352dc0dbffcc@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:49:03AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> This is 'just plain stupid'.
> The 'bv_' prefix of the members of 'struct bvec' is there so that 'grep'
> (etc) can be used to find the uses of the members.
>
> In a 'struct skb_frag_struct' a sensible prefix might be 'sf_'.
>
> OTOH it might be sensible to use (or embed) a 'struct bvec'
> instead of 'skb_frag_struct'.
Maybe you should read patch 7/7. Or 0/7.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-24 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-23 3:08 [PATCH v3 0/7] Convert skb_frag_t to bio_vec Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-23 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] net: Use skb accessors in network drivers Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-23 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] net: Use skb accessors in network core Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-23 3:56 ` Yunsheng Lin
2019-07-23 11:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-23 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] net: Increase the size of skb_frag_t Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-23 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] net: Reorder the contents " Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-23 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] net: Rename skb_frag page to bv_page Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-23 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] net: Rename skb_frag_t size to bv_len Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-24 10:49 ` David Laight
2019-07-24 11:41 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2019-07-24 18:46 ` David Miller
2019-07-23 3:08 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] net: Convert skb_frag_t to bio_vec Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-23 3:48 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] " David Miller
2019-07-25 16:26 ` Jonathan Lemon
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-07-12 13:43 Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-12 13:43 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] net: Rename skb_frag_t size to bv_len Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-23 22:33 ` Saeed Mahameed
2019-07-24 1:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-24 17:58 ` Saeed Mahameed
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