From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta7.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta7.messagelabs.com [216.82.255.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B013C6B0031 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:41:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pzd13 with SMTP id 13so6788074pzd.6 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:41:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:44:12 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add a "struct page_frag" type containing a page, offset and length Message-Id: <20111019224412.396b9a79.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20111013.163708.1319779926961023813.davem@davemloft.net> <20111013.165148.64222593458932960.davem@davemloft.net> <20111013142201.355f9afc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1318575363.11016.8.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> <1318927778.16132.52.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Ian Campbell , David Miller , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "hch@infradead.org" , "jaxboe@fusionio.com" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:36:30 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > From 806b74572ad63e2ed3ca69bb5640a55dc4475e73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Ian Campbell > > 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 > > Acked-by: Jens Axboe > > Acked-by: David Rientjes > > Cc: Christoph Hellwig > > Cc: David Miller > > Cc: Andrew Morton > > 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org