From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:38:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060808.183808.74747814.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <44D93B60.7030507@google.com> References: <20060808193345.1396.16773.sendpatchset@lappy> <20060808135721.5af713fb@localhost.localdomain> <44D93B60.7030507@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: Daniel Phillips Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:33:20 -0700 Return-Path: To: phillips@google.com Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Minor rant: the whole skb_alloc familly has degenerated into an unholy > mess and could use some rethinking. I believe the current patch gets as > far as three _'s at the beginning of a function, this shows it is high > time to reroll the api. I think it is merely an expression of how dynamic are the operations that people want to perform on SKBs, and how important it is for performance to implement COW semantics for the data. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org