From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: pravin <pravin.shelar@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
shannon.nelson@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, christopher.leech@intel.com,
andy.grover@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET_DMA: remove unused dma_memcpy_to_kernel_iovec
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:14:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070730181451.GA28616@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bab433300707300739s283bf15fp9d00235cf39fa08b@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:09:53PM +0530, pravin wrote:
> comments?
please avoid using plain sendmsg/recvmsg from kernelspace. Adding these
segment checks is more than a bad hack and not something that should
clutter up fasthpathes. Add to that problems with kthreads vs blocking
recvmsg and you have a bigger mess than you can handle.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-30 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-25 0:36 [PATCH] NET_DMA: remove unused dma_memcpy_to_kernel_iovec Shannon Nelson
2007-07-25 0:37 ` David Miller
2007-07-26 7:06 ` David Miller
2007-07-30 14:39 ` pravin
2007-07-30 18:14 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-07-30 20:47 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
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2007-07-24 20:45 Shannon Nelson
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