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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch] add iocb to network protocols
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 19:40:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021010194025.B13432@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021010.162240.102769920.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:22:40PM -0700

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:22:40PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> +#include <net/scm.h>	/* for sock_iocb */
> 
> What is this?

The private area of an iocb for network operations contains a struct 
scm_cookie.  The alternative is to allocate it via kmalloc when needed, 
but there isn't currently a way of identifying which network protocols 
require the scm_cookie.  Since most network protocols do not use it, 
would you rather remove the scm_cookie out of the default path and 
allow the protocol to choose to create it?  That would remove the 
dependancy on scm_cookie from sock_iocb entirely.

		-ben
-- 
"Do you seek knowledge in time travel?"

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-10 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-10 22:35 [patch] add iocb to network protocols Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-10 23:22 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-10 23:40   ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-10-10 23:36     ` David S. Miller
2002-10-11 20:15     ` kuznet
2002-10-11 20:24       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-11  9:31 ` Steven Whitehouse
2002-10-11 10:27   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-12  1:21 ` David S. Miller

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