From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: kys@microsoft.com
Cc: olaf@aepfle.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com,
devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] hv_netvsc: Eliminate memory allocation in the send path
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:12:52 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150331.141252.1285173813259299502.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427688478-27950-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 21:07:58 -0700
> The network protocol used to communicate with the host is the remote ndis (rndis)
> protocol. We need to decorate each outgoing packet with a rndis header and
> additional rndis state (rndis per-packet state). To manage this state, we
> currently allocate memory in the transmit path. Eliminate this allocation by
> requesting additional head room in the skb.
Series applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-31 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-30 4:07 [PATCH net-next 0/2] hv_netvsc: Eliminate memory allocation in the send path K. Y. Srinivasan
2015-03-30 4:08 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] hv_netvsc: Cleanup the test for freeing skb when we use sendbuf mechanism K. Y. Srinivasan
2015-03-30 4:08 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] hv_netvsc: Eliminate memory allocation in the packet send path K. Y. Srinivasan
2015-03-30 9:02 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] hv_netvsc: Cleanup the test for freeing skb when we use sendbuf mechanism Dan Carpenter
2015-03-30 14:25 ` KY Srinivasan
2015-03-31 18:12 ` David Miller [this message]
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