Re: [PATCH] skbuff: remove unused dma_head & dma_maps fields

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:48:06 +0100

> Le mardi 23 mars 2010 à 23:40 -0700, Jeff Kirsher a écrit :
>> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
>> 
>> The dma map fields in the skb_shared_info structure no longer has any users
>> and can be dropped since it is making the skb_shared_info unecessarily larger.
>> 
>> Running slabtop show that we were using 4K slabs for the skb->head on x86_64 w/
>> an allocation size of 1522.  It turns out that the dma_head and dma_maps array
>> made skb_shared large enough that we had crossed over the 2k boundary with
>> standard frames and as such we were using 4k blocks of memory for all skbs.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
>> ---
>> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for doing this cleanup !
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Yep, thanks indeed.  Applied!