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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: tomasw@gmail.com, linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] mac80211: assign needed_headroom/tailroom for netdevs
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 21:57:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210017456.4181.23.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080505.125013.129139559.davem@davemloft.net>

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> My bad, it merely allows for devices that can handle
> frag lists in sk_buff as transmit packets.

:)

> I guess you could use this, btw, to take on arbitrary things
> to the front of frames to handle big headers.  But that's more
> expensive than just getting the LL header length right.

Not necessarily because we seem to be getting a lot of cloned frames
that we need to copy all the time. If we would remove the ethernet
header and stick that skb into the fraglist of a new skb we'd win.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-04 21:24 [RFC] mac80211: assign needed_headroom/tailroom for netdevs Johannes Berg
2008-05-04 21:31 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-04 21:32 ` [RFC v2] " Johannes Berg
2008-05-05  0:30   ` David Miller
2008-05-05  7:22     ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 14:27       ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-05 15:22         ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 17:15           ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-05 17:57             ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 18:58               ` David Miller
2008-05-05 19:05                 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 19:50                   ` David Miller
2008-05-05 19:57                     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-05-05 20:02                       ` David Miller
2008-05-05 20:10                         ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 20:44                           ` David Miller
2008-05-05 20:57                             ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 21:01                               ` David Miller
2008-05-05 22:37                               ` David Miller
2008-05-05 22:44                                 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 23:14                                   ` David Miller
2008-05-05 23:23                                     ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 23:39                                       ` David Miller
2008-05-06  0:01                                         ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-06  0:08                                           ` David Miller
2008-05-06 11:13                                             ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-06  1:32                                         ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-13  5:01                                 ` David Miller
2008-05-05 23:03           ` David Miller
2008-05-05 23:17             ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 23:24               ` David Miller
2008-05-05 23:30                 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 23:36             ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-05 23:40               ` David Miller
2008-05-13  3:52   ` David Miller
2008-05-13  9:01     ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-13  9:45       ` David Miller
2008-05-13 10:07         ` Johannes Berg

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