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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add missing skb->dev assignment in Frame Relay RX code
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:12:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3fxqu6bc8.fsf@maximus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080630101948.535496a9@extreme> (Stephen Hemminger's message of "Mon\, 30 Jun 2008 10\:19\:48 -0700")

Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> writes:

> netdev_alloc_skb does two things:
>   1) it sets skb->dev
>   2) on some platforms it can choose memory "closer" to the device.
>      but this is really a NUMA issue

I see. It looks like I should use it for sending control messages
then. Thanks.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-30 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-29 19:48 [PATCH] Add missing skb->dev assignment in Frame Relay RX code Krzysztof Halasa
2008-06-29 20:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-29 21:10   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-06-30 17:19     ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-30 18:12       ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2008-07-04 12:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-04 12:39   ` Krzysztof Halasa

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