From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Reduce size of efx_rx_buffer by unionising skb and page
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:24:59 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110301.122459.183051942.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298942490.3069.180.camel@localhost>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:21:30 +0000
> From: Steve Hodgson <shodgson@solarflare.com>
>
> [bwh: Forward-ported to net-next-2.6.]
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
I'm going to apply this, but you can take this further by making
the buffer an "unsigned long" and encode the pointer plus a one-bit
binary state there to indicate what it is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-01 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 1:16 pull request: sfc-next-2.6 2011-03-01 Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 1:21 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Reduce size of efx_rx_buffer by unionising skb and page Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 20:24 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-03-01 20:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 21:08 ` David Miller
2011-03-01 1:22 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 2/8] sfc: Reduce size of efx_rx_buffer further by removing data member Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 1:22 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 3/8] sfc: Read MC firmware version when requested through ethtool Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 1:22 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 4/8] sfc: Do not read STAT1.FAULT in efx_mdio_check_mmd() Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 1:23 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 5/8] sfc: Update copyright dates Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 1:23 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 6/8] sfc: Expose TX push and TSO counters through ethtool statistics Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 1:23 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 7/8] sfc: Remove configurable FIFO thresholds for pause frame generation Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 1:23 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 8/8] sfc: Bump version to 3.1 Ben Hutchings
2011-03-01 20:25 ` pull request: sfc-next-2.6 2011-03-01 David Miller
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