From: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 06:43:38 -0700
> From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <wi...@infradead.org> > > The skb_frag_t and bio_vec are fundamentally the same (page, offset, > length) tuple. This patch series unifies the two, leaving the > skb_frag_t typedef in place. This has the immediate advantage that > we already have iov_iter support for bvecs and don't need to add > support for iterating skbuffs. It enables a long-term plan to use > bvecs more broadly within the kernel and should make network-storage > drivers able to do less work converting between skbuffs and biovecs. > > It will consume more memory on 32-bit kernels. If that proves > problematic, we can look at ways of addressing it. > > v3: Rebase on latest Linus with net-next merged. > - Reorder the uncontroversial 'Use skb accessors' patches first so you > can apply just those two if you want to hold off on the full > conversion. > - Convert all the users of 'struct skb_frag_struct' to skb_frag_t. I have no objections to this series, please resubmit it (taking into consideration any more feedback you get) when net-next opens back up.
