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[PATCH 0/12] remove sk_protinfo series

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH 0/12] remove sk_protinfo series
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:18:47 -0200
Cc: Networking Team <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi David,

        This series addresses Christoph and Jean concerns about the overhead
caused by private slab caches in every family, by making sk_alloc use kmalloc
if no slab cache is used, and as a transitional mechanism the zero_it
semantic is maintained, that is, if slab is NULL and zero_it is 1, use the
generic "slab" (sk_cachep) cache.

        Now only the ham radio protocols (AX25, NETROM and ROSE) and
net/wanrouter uses sk_protinfo to store an private area directly, and
bluetooth uses it as a second level for proto info while using a
private slab cache for the first level of proto info.

        This series has atm and pppox in addition to the set of families
covered in the first series.

        Available at:

bk://kernel.bkbits.net/acme/connection_sock-2.6

Best Regards,

- Arnaldo


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