[Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH 9/9] igb: Revert "igb: Revert support for build_skb in igb"

Duyck, Alexander H alexander.h.duyck at intel.com
Fri Jan 6 17:10:02 UTC 2017


On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 08:39 -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 08:11 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > 
> > From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck at intel.com>
> > 
> > This reverts commit f9d40f6a9921 ("igb: Revert support for build_skb in
> > igb") and adds a few changes to update it to work with the latest version
> > of igb. We are now able to revert the removal of this due to the fact
> > that with the recent changes to the page count and the use of
> > DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC we can make the pages writable so we should not be
> > invalidating the additional data added when we call build_skb.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c |   47
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
> 
> Weird, this patch is not showing up in patchworks.  I will get this patch
> added as well to my tree and work on getting it to show up in patchworks.
> 

Maybe it is the quotes in the patch description?  If so feel free to
replace them with some other form of punctuation if needed.

- Alex


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