From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Ian.Campbell@citrix.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] skb fragment API: convert network drivers (part III)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:05:45 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110922.160545.526551451487549432.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316677996.23371.10.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:53:16 +0100
> The following series converts the third batch of network drivers to the
> SKB pages fragment API introduced in 131ea6675c76. I expect there will
> be ~4 similarly sized batches to convert all the drivers over.
>
> This is part of my series to enable visibility into SKB paged fragment's
> lifecycles, [0] contains some more background and rationale but
> basically the completed series will allow entities which inject pages
> into the networking stack to receive a notification when the stack has
> really finished with those pages (i.e. including retransmissions,
> clones, pull-ups etc) and not just when the original skb is finished
> with, which is beneficial to many subsystems which wish to inject pages
> into the network stack without giving up full ownership of those page's
> lifecycle. It implements something broadly along the lines of what was
> described in [1].
ALl applied, thanks Ian.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-22 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-22 7:53 [PATCH 0/14] skb fragment API: convert network drivers (part III) Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 01/14] s2io: convert to SKB paged frag API Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 02/14] sfc: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 03/14] skge: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 04/14] sky2: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 05/14] starfire: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 06/14] stmmac: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 07/14] sungem: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 08/14] sunhme: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 09/14] tehuti: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 8:08 ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: tehuti: Alexander Indenbaum's address bounces Ian Campbell
2011-09-29 4:32 ` David Miller
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 10/14] tsi108: convert to SKB paged frag API Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 11/14] typhoon: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 12/14] via-velocity: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 13/14] virtionet: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 7:53 ` [PATCH 14/14] vmxnet3: " Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 16:30 ` [Pv-drivers] " Bhavesh Davda
2011-09-22 16:46 ` Ian Campbell
2011-09-22 16:49 ` Bhavesh Davda
2011-09-22 20:05 ` David Miller [this message]
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