On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:36:30 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > From 806b74572ad63e2ed3ca69bb5640a55dc4475e73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 16:46:54 +0100 > > Subject: [PATCH] mm: add a "struct page_frag" type containing a page, offset and length > > > > A few network drivers currently use skb_frag_struct for this purpose but I have > > patches which add additional fields and semantics there which these other uses > > do not want. > > > > A structure for reference sub-page regions seems like a generally useful thing > > so do so instead of adding a network subsystem specific structure. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx > > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [since v1: s/struct subpage/struct page_frag/ on advice from Christoph] > > [since v2: s/page_offset/offset/ on advice from Andrew] > > Looks good, is this going to be going through net-next? yes please. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>