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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop•org>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap•net>
Cc: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb•net>,
	linux-scsi@vger•kernel.org,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership•com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab•ntt.co.jp>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@cs•wisc.edu>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik•org>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas•com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, scst-devel@lists•sourceforge.net,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail•com>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi•org>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp•com.au>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC 23/23]: Support for zero-copy TCP transmit of user space data
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:56:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <494C50BB.5030809@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081219223314.GA2736@ioremap.net>

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> Shared info is freed when there are no skbs referring to the shared info
> in question. Skb holds all pages in shared info in the fraglist array,
> so when it is about to be freed, it means that network stack does not
> use it (particulary it will putpage every page in fraglist). Usually
> there are two skbs in the network stack per packet in TCP (allocated at
> once though via fastclone mechanims): one is provided to the device
> (and will be freed there) and another one is placed into retransmit
> queue, where it will be located and freed when ack has been received.
>
> There may be another layers which may clone skb, but its shared info
> structure (shared between the clones) will only be freed when all users
> freed appropriate cloned skbs.
>   

I see.  One more question: how would I go about submitting some data 
with the callback attached to it?

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-20  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-10 18:26 [PATCH][RFC 0/23] New SCSI target framework (SCST) and 4 target drivers Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-10 19:01 ` [PATCH][RFC 21/23]: iSCSI target driver Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-11 22:55   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-12-11 22:59     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2008-12-12 19:26     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-10 19:02 ` [PATCH][RFC 22/23]: Documentation for iSCSI-SCST Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-10 19:04 ` [PATCH][RFC 23/23]: Support for zero-copy TCP transmit of user space data Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-10 21:45   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-11 18:16     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-11 19:12       ` James Bottomley
2008-12-12 19:25         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-12 19:37           ` James Bottomley
2008-12-15 17:58             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-15 23:18               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-16 18:57                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-18 18:35                   ` [RFC]: " Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-18 18:43                     ` David M. Lloyd
2008-12-19 17:37                       ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-19 19:07                         ` Jens Axboe
2008-12-19 19:17                           ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-19 19:27                             ` Jens Axboe
2008-12-19 21:58                               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-23 19:11                               ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-19 11:27                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-19 17:38                       ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-19 18:00                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-12-19 17:57                           ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-16 16:00     ` [PATCH][RFC 23/23]: " Bart Van Assche
2008-12-16 17:41       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-19 20:21   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-19 22:04     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-19 22:21       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-19 22:33         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-20  1:56           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-12-20  2:02             ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-20  6:14               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-20  6:51                 ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-20  7:43                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-20  8:10                     ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-20 10:32                       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-20 19:39                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-22  0:43                           ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-23 19:14                             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-23 19:16                         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-23 21:38                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-24 14:37                             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-24 14:44                               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-24 17:46                                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-24 18:08                                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-30 17:37                                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-12-30 21:35                                       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-23 19:13     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin

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