From: Benjamin LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:52:01 -0500
> In __alloc_skb(), the use of skb_shinfo() which casts a u8 * to the
> shared info structure results in gcc being forced to do a reload of the
> pointer since it has no information on possible aliasing. Fix this b
From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:50:28 +
> The Xen networking stuff is a piece of crap currently and far a way from
> beeing mergeable. I think we should kill it and if Xen still needs it after
> their networking code is rewritten to something sane we can
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:34:28PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:58:57 -0500
>
> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:59:57PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > How about moving this into a helper function
> > > and calling it from allo
From: Benjamin LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:58:57 -0500
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:59:57PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > How about moving this into a helper function
> > and calling it from alloc_skb_from_cache too?
>
> The previous patch deleted alloc_skb_from_cache(),
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:58 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:59:57PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > How about moving this into a helper function and calling it from
> > > alloc_skb_from_cache too?
> >
> > The previous patch deleted alloc_skb_from_cache(), which wa
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:58 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:59:57PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > How about moving this into a helper function
> > and calling it from alloc_skb_from_cache too?
>
> The previous patch deleted alloc_skb_from_cache(), which wasn't reference
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:59:57PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> How about moving this into a helper function
> and calling it from alloc_skb_from_cache too?
The previous patch deleted alloc_skb_from_cache(), which wasn't referenced
from anywhere in the tree.
-ben
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On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:52 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> In __alloc_skb(), the use of skb_shinfo() which casts a u8 * to the
> shared info structure results in gcc being forced to do a reload of the
> pointer since it has no information on possible aliasing. Fix this by
> using a pointer to
In __alloc_skb(), the use of skb_shinfo() which casts a u8 * to the
shared info structure results in gcc being forced to do a reload of the
pointer since it has no information on possible aliasing. Fix this by
using a pointer to refer to skb_shared_info.
By initializing skb_shared_info sequent
