From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rapier@psc.edu
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: size of data_segs_[in|out] and segs_[in|out]
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 12:04:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160809.120458.792987014914899369.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e0a3f13a-f3cc-8455-8e7d-9c604f8ef4fb@psc.edu>
From: rapier <rapier@psc.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 13:17:59 -0400
> I cannot deny that would be a problem but conversely, those
> applications are currently in a position where they may be depending
> on inaccurate data. I'm not advocating breaking things for the sake of
> breaking things but my feeling is that this will eventually need to be
> addressed. Since the segs datastructure is a relatively recent
> addition it might make sense to make that change now before it's even
> more baked in to other applications.
Changing the size or position of these data structure members is
simply not an option. It is locked into stone, and a permanent
ABI which we cannot change.
Please stop discussing as if changing this is a possibility.
You need to find another solution to the problem, or advocate a
user side solution (periodic polling).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-09 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-08 22:02 size of data_segs_[in|out] and segs_[in|out] rapier
2016-08-08 23:02 ` David Miller
2016-08-09 17:17 ` rapier
2016-08-09 19:04 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-08-09 19:15 ` rapier
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