From: Adrian Cox <adrian@humboldt.co.uk>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Cc: "Sirotkin, Alexander" <demiurg@ti.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: network driver that uses skb destructor
Date: 30 Dec 2003 09:13:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072775631.6557.11.camel@newt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031229172402.GG13481@actcom.co.il>
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 17:24, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> I wrote a patch to allow chaining of skb destructors, which was fairly
> simple and would allow both the driver and the upper layers to set
> their destructors. If there's any interet, I could probably resurrect
> it.
It's interesting to me, for my work with PCI backplane networking, as it
would eliminate an extra packet copy on receive.
(The current non-transparent PCI bridges have an IOMMU in one direction
only. This means that one side of the bridge has to allocate its receive
buffers out of a small area.)
- Adrian Cox
http://www.humboldt.co.uk/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-30 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-29 16:53 network driver that uses skb destructor Sirotkin, Alexander
2003-12-29 17:24 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-12-30 9:13 ` Adrian Cox [this message]
2003-12-30 9:36 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-01-01 19:09 ` [RFC/PATCH] skb destructor chaining [was Re: network driver that uses skb destructor] Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-12-30 9:48 ` network driver that uses skb destructor Duncan Sands
2003-12-30 15:02 ` [Linux-ATM-General] " chas williams
2003-12-29 19:10 ` Jeff Garzik
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