From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: gombasg@sztaki.hu
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, johann.baudy@gnu-log.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: PACKET_TX_RING: packet size is too long
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:40:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091029.034025.218199437.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091029102923.GA15314@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu>
From: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:29:24 +0100
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:19:17AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
>> From: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:10:29 +0200
>>
>> > Currently PACKET_TX_RING forces certain amount of every frame to remain
>> > unused. This probably originates from an early version of the
>> > PACKET_TX_RING patch that in fact used the extra space when the (since
>> > removed) CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP_ZERO_COPY option was enabled. The current
>> > code does not make any use of this extra space.
>> >
>> > This patch removes the extra space reservation and lets userspace make
>> > use of the full frame size.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
>>
>> Applied, thanks!
>
> Thanks! Does it have a chance to be included in 2.6.32, or it is too
> late in the rc series?
It will be merged to Linus for 2.6.23
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-29 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-09 9:07 PACKET_TX_RING: packet size is too long Gabor Gombas
2009-10-09 22:05 ` [PATCH] " Gabor Gombas
2009-10-13 7:54 ` David Miller
2009-10-15 20:10 ` Gabor Gombas
2009-10-29 10:19 ` David Miller
2009-10-29 10:29 ` Gabor Gombas
2009-10-29 10:40 ` David Miller [this message]
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