From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: xiaohui.xin@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, davem@davemloft.net,
herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, jdike@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 03/17] Add a ndo_mp_port_prep pointer to net_device_ops.
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:42:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285594953.2263.5.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79267b300503d98d43ccfcf11d1374f59fec8578.1285385607.git.xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 12:27 +0800, xiaohui.xin@intel.com wrote:
> From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
>
> If the driver want to allocate external buffers,
> then it can export it's capability, as the skb
> buffer header length, the page length can be DMA, etc.
> The external buffers owner may utilize this.
[...]
This information needs to be included in the comment above struct
net_device_ops, not just in the commit message.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-27 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-25 4:27 [PATCH v11 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 01/17] Add a new structure for skb buffer from external xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 02/17] Add a new struct for device to manipulate external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 13:41 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 03/17] Add a ndo_mp_port_prep pointer to net_device_ops xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 13:42 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-09-29 13:41 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 04/17]Add a function make external buffer owner to query capability xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 13:45 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 05/17] Add a function to indicate if device use external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 06/17]Use callback to deal with skb_release_data() specially xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 07/17] Modify netdev_alloc_page() to get external buffer xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 08/17] Modify netdev_free_page() to release " xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 09/17] Don't do skb recycle, if device use " xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 10/17] Add a hook to intercept external buffers from NIC driver xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 11/17] Add header file for mp device xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 13:55 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 12/17] Add a kconfig entry and make entry " xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 13:56 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-29 13:39 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 13/17] Add mp(mediate passthru) device xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 21:23 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-28 13:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-28 14:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-28 14:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-28 15:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-28 18:48 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2010-09-29 13:38 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 14/17]Provides multiple submits and asynchronous notifications xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 15/17]An example how to modifiy NIC driver to use napi_gro_frags() interface xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 16/17]An example how to alloc user buffer based on " xiaohui.xin
2010-09-25 4:27 ` [PATCH v11 17/17]add two new ioctls for mp device xiaohui.xin
2010-09-27 21:36 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-28 13:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-28 9:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-29 9:36 ` xiaohui.xin
2010-09-26 17:01 ` [PATCH v11 00/17] Provide a zero-copy method on KVM virtio-net Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-09-27 0:44 ` Xin, Xiaohui
2010-09-28 1:25 ` Xin, Xiaohui
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