On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:53:44AM +0200, Brice Goglin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Imho you will want to work directly with pages shortly. > > > > We had thought about doing this, but were a little nervous since we did > not know of any other drivers that worked directly with pages. If this > is an official direction to work directly with pages, we will.
s2io does. e1000 does it with skb frags. If your hardware allows header split and driver can put headers into skb->data and real data into frag_list, that allows to create various interesting things like receiving zero-copy support and netchannels support. It is work in progress, not official direction currently, but this definitely will help your driver to support future high performance extensions. > Brice -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html