From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm: add a "struct subpage" type containing a page, offset and length
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:19:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111010161942.GA751@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318263059.21903.462.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 05:10:59PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> This version sizes the fields according to page size, was there
> somewhere which wanted to use an offset > PAGE_SIZE (or size > PAGE_SIZE
> for that matter). That would be pretty odd and/or not really a candidate
> for using this datastructure?
I wasn't ever part of the fight myself and only vaguely remember it.
Try to get linux-kernel and Jens onto the Cc list to at least have the
major stakeholders informed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-10 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-10 11:11 [PATCH 0/9] skb fragment API: convert network drivers (part V) Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 11:11 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm: add a "struct subpage" type containing a page, offset and length Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 12:27 ` Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 15:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-10 16:10 ` Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-10-10 16:27 ` Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 11:11 ` [PATCH 2/9] mlx4: convert to SKB paged frag API Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 11:11 ` [PATCH 3/9] cxgb4: " Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 11:11 ` [PATCH 4/9] cxgb4vf: " Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 11:11 ` [PATCH 5/9] cxgbi: " Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 11:11 ` [PATCH 6/9] ehea: " Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 11:11 ` [PATCH 7/9] emac: " Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 11:11 ` [PATCH 8/9] ll_temac: " Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 11:11 ` [PATCH 9/9] net: add opaque struct around skb frag page Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 15:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-10 15:13 ` Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 18:20 ` [PATCH 0/9] skb fragment API: convert network drivers (part V) David Miller
2011-10-10 18:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-10 19:16 ` David Miller
2011-10-10 19:17 ` Ian Campbell
2011-10-10 19:18 ` David Miller
2011-10-10 19:42 ` Eric Dumazet
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