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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
	jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix networking scatterlist regressions.
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:06:32 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710311706.33142.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071030.204002.193703502.davem@davemloft.net>

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 14:40:02 David Miller wrote:
> I just checked the following bug fix into net-2.6
>
> Rusty, have a quick look at virtio_net wrt. the changes I
> made to skb_to_sgvec()'s behavior.  I think I might have
> even fixed something :-)

Grr, the scatterlist changes are really pissing me off.  We get ugly tricky 
code *and* transition pain.

I hate to suggest this, but I don't supposed there's a chance we can revert it 
for 2.6.24 and do something cleaner for 2.6.25?

Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31  3:40 [PATCH]: Fix networking scatterlist regressions David Miller
2007-10-31  6:06 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-10-31  6:44   ` David Miller
2007-10-31  7:32 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-31  7:43   ` David Miller
2007-10-31  7:47     ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-31  7:46 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-31  7:58   ` David Miller
2007-10-31  8:01     ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-31  8:08       ` David Miller
2007-10-31  8:08         ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-31  8:14     ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-31  9:26       ` David Miller
2007-10-31  9:29         ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-31 13:45 ` Herbert Xu
2007-10-31 13:46   ` Jens Axboe

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