From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
"jaxboe@fusionio.com" <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add a "struct page_frag" type containing a page, offset and length
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:44:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111019224412.396b9a79.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1110192236080.4618@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:36:30 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Ian Campbell wrote:
>
> > From 806b74572ad63e2ed3ca69bb5640a55dc4475e73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> > Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 16:46:54 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] mm: add a "struct page_frag" type containing a page, offset and length
> >
> > A few network drivers currently use skb_frag_struct for this purpose but I have
> > patches which add additional fields and semantics there which these other uses
> > do not want.
> >
> > A structure for reference sub-page regions seems like a generally useful thing
> > so do so instead of adding a network subsystem specific structure.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> > Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
> > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> > Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > [since v1: s/struct subpage/struct page_frag/ on advice from Christoph]
> > [since v2: s/page_offset/offset/ on advice from Andrew]
>
> Looks good, is this going to be going through net-next?
yes please.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-20 5:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 10:02 [PATCH] mm: add a "struct page_frag" type containing a page, offset and length Ian Campbell
2011-10-13 20:33 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-13 20:37 ` David Miller
2011-10-13 20:49 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-13 20:51 ` David Miller
2011-10-13 21:22 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-14 6:56 ` Ian Campbell
2011-10-18 8:49 ` Ian Campbell
2011-10-20 5:36 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-20 5:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-10-20 8:59 ` David Miller
2011-10-20 9:04 ` Ian Campbell
2011-10-14 6:42 ` Jens Axboe
2011-10-14 9:17 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-14 9:54 ` Jens Axboe
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