RE: PATCH zero-copy send completion callback

2006-10-17 Thread Eric Barton
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RE: PATCH zero-copy send completion callback

2006-10-17 Thread Eric Barton
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. Yes - unfortunately I didn't submit my patch personally. And I've rewritten it since to to avoid the obvious criticisms. This time around,

RE: PATCH zero-copy send completion callback

2006-10-17 Thread Eric Barton
Evgeniy, You can use existing skb destructor and appropriate reference counter is already there. In your own destructor you need to call old one of course, and it's type can be determined from the analysis of the headers and skb itself (there are not so much destructor's types actually). If

PATCH zero-copy send completion callback

2006-10-16 Thread Eric Barton
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... a) A general-purpose callback to inform higher-level protocols when a zero-copy send of a set of

PATCH zero-copy send completion callback

2006-10-16 Thread Eric Barton
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... a) A general-purpose callback to inform higher-level protocols when a zero-copy send of a set of

RE: PATCH zero-copy send completion callback

2006-10-16 Thread Eric Barton
David, Also, the correct mailing list to get to the networking developers is [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-net is for users. Noted. 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