From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Duyck Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] igb: use build_skb() Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:28:50 -0700 Message-ID: <50203712.1040404@intel.com> References: <1343922692.9299.231.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <50200066.6060905@intel.com> <1344277315.26674.54.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Kirsher , netdev To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:25883 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753658Ab2HFV2t (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:28:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1344277315.26674.54.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/06/2012 11:21 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:35 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote: > >> I was planning to move igb over to an ixgbe style receive path at some >> point anyway. Since it seems like this is now a higher priority I >> figured I would try to get the patches for it implemented in the next >> week or so. Would there be any issue with us rejecting this patch and >> instead switching igb over to the ixgbe style path? > It seems I missed this part. > > I use igb on my dev machine, not on prod machines, so if you are moving > igb to ixgbe, I can certainly can maintain my patch in my tree, while > you make your changes. > I'll try to get the coding for this finished up this week and I can probably send you a copy of the patches as an RFC. We will do testing and hopefully we can have the patches pushed to net-next for 3.7. Thanks, Alex