From: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:28:01 +0100
> The following series converts some non-network drivers to the SKB pages > fragment API introduced in 131ea6675c76. Included are ATM, Infiniband, > and FibreChannel. I also included the broadcom network drivers since I > was touching the related FC driver. > > 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
