[Intel-wired-lan] [RFC PATCH] ixgbe: use xdp_buff to simplify call path

[John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>]

On 17-03-03 04:29 PM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 1:04 PM, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Alex, is this what you are thinking w.r.t. pushing the xdp_buff
>> through the ixgbe skb build routines. It seems to look OK but
>> only lightly tested for now.
>>
>> I hvaen't decided if I want to push it into the first set of
>> patches or as a 4th patch.
> 
> Yeah, this is more or less what I was thinking.  Basically we just end
> up pulling most of the rx_buffer_info structure onto the stack and
> then process it there.  If we folded it into the other patches it
> might actually make them a bit smaller since this patch is having to
> go through and unto a number of things those patches are doing.
> 


Yeah, I'll fold it in Monday and address the couple other comments.
Then I think we are probably good.