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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: more accurate skb truesize
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:13:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318525990.2745.33.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318525877.2393.41.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC>

On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 19:11 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le jeudi 13 octobre 2011 à 17:32 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> 
> > Fair enough, but please add a comment explaining this.
> > 
> 
> 
> What about :
> 
> 	/* We do our best to align skb_shared_info on a separate cache
> 	 * line. It usually works because kmalloc(X > CACHE_BYTES) gives
> 	 * aligned memory blocks, unless SLUB/SLAB debug is enabled.
> 	 */
> 	size += SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));

Yes, that seems like a good explanation.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-13 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-13 15:26 [PATCH net-next] net: more accurate skb truesize Eric Dumazet
2011-10-13 16:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-10-13 16:24   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-13 16:32     ` Ben Hutchings
2011-10-13 17:11       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-13 17:13         ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-10-13 17:28           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-10-13 20:05             ` David Miller
2011-10-13 20:33 ` Andi Kleen
2011-10-13 20:51   ` Eric Dumazet

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