On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:52:22PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Eric Barton <eeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:51:30 +0100 > > > This patch has been used with the lustre cluster file system > > (www.lustre.org) to give notification when page buffers used to send > > bulk data via TCP/IP may be overwritten. It implements... > > I would suggedt that you post these kinds of infrastructure patches > when you design this stuff, not after you've had your filesystem > depending upon it all of this time. > > Also, the correct mailing list to get to the networking developers > is netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "linux-net" is for users. > > Finally, I very much doubt you have much chance getting this > change in, the infrastructure is implemented in a very ad-hoc > fashion and it takes into consideration none of the potential > other users of such a thing. And these days we're trying to figure > out how to eliminate skbuff and skb_shared_info struct members > whereas you're adding 16-bytes of space on 64-bit platforms. In addition to that I'm pretty sure I remember that some clusterfs person already posted these patches a while ago and got ripped apart in the same way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
