From: Tom Tucker <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:57:08 -0500 > I'm not trying to be pedantic here but let me try and restate what I > think you said above: > > - The "header" traverses the real networking stack > - The "payload" is placed either by by the hardware if possible or by > the native stack if on the exception path > - The "header" may aggregate multiple PDU (RSO) > - Data ready indications are controlled entirely by the software/real > networking stack SKB's can be paged, in fact many devices already work by chopping up lists of pages that the driver gives to the card. NIU is one of several examples. The only difference between what a device like NIU is doing now and what I propose is smart determination of at what offset and into which buffers to do the demarcation. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
