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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"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: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:42:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E97D9E4.4090202@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318500176-10728-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>

On 2011-10-13 12:02, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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.

Looks good to me, I can switch struct bio_vec over to this once it's in.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-14  6:42 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
2011-10-20  8:59               ` David Miller
2011-10-20  9:04                 ` Ian Campbell
2011-10-14  6:42 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2011-10-14  9:17   ` David Rientjes
2011-10-14  9:54     ` Jens Axboe

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