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* [RFC 0/2] Convert skb to use scatterlist
@ 2007-07-05 23:14 Stephen Hemminger
  2007-07-05 23:14 ` [RFC 1/2] skbuff: " Stephen Hemminger
  2007-07-05 23:14 ` [RFC 2/2] shrink size of scatterlist on common i386/x86-64 Stephen Hemminger
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2007-07-05 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: netdev

This topic came up at first Netconf. This patch changes skbuff
to use scatterlist. Why? Devices can than use the pci_dma_sg
routines to map the fraglist in one operation. This allows
for better error handling (less unwinding), and some IOMMU's
(PPC?) can be smarter.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>


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2007-07-05 23:14 ` [RFC 2/2] shrink size of scatterlist on common i386/x86-64 Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-05 23:32   ` Roland Dreier
2007-07-05 23:43   ` David Miller
2007-07-06  0:00     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-06  0:15       ` David Miller
2007-07-06  7:43         ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-06  8:54           ` David Miller
2007-07-06 17:14         ` Williams, Mitch A
2007-07-06 19:20           ` David Miller
2007-07-08 16:17             ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-07-09  7:06               ` David Miller
2007-07-09  8:53                 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-07-08 16:11           ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-07-11 23:46             ` Williams, Mitch A

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