From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752247Ab1JMUYH (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:24:07 -0400 Received: from mx2.parallels.com ([64.131.90.16]:56025 "EHLO mx2.parallels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751477Ab1JMUYF (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:24:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4E9748C5.6070306@parallels.com> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:23:33 +0400 From: Glauber Costa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: , , , , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/8] Request for inclusion: tcp memory buffers References: <1318511382-31051-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <20111013.160031.605700447623532119.davem@davemloft.net> <4E9744A6.5010101@parallels.com> <20111013.161608.1413756673453885746.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20111013.161608.1413756673453885746.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [195.68.147.2] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/14/2011 12:16 AM, David Miller wrote: > From: Glauber Costa > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:05:58 +0400 > >> Thank you for letting me now about your view of this that early. > > I depend upon my colleagues to assist me in the large task that is reviewing > the enormous number of networking patches that get submitted. > > Unfortunately, none of them got a chance to review this patch set > seriously, since I know most of them (especially Eric Dumazet) would > balk at the overhead you're proposing to add to our stack, just as I > did. > > This is the reality of the situation, and I'm sorry to tell you that > snippy retorts when someone does take the time out to review your work > won't help at all. I understand that and appreciate your time. I'll try to come up with something that addresses this problem in the next submission.