Re: handing cloned frames to netif_rx()?

["Tomas Winkler" <tomasw-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Jan 11, 2008 3:17 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes-cdvu00un1VgdHxzADdlk8Q@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> In 802.11n, there is a case where multiple data frames are received
> aggregated into a single frame (A-MSDU).
>
> Currently, we copy each of these frames out into their own skb, but
> because of the alignment with that etc. I started to think that we could
> simply pass up a clone of the original skb with start/length adjusted
> properly so that it windows only the contained packet.
>
> The buffer would be shared but the data within the original window
> (starting with the 802.3 header) could even be written to, it won't be
> needed again by mac80211 once it's handed off to netif_rx(). The skb
> will obviously have lots of head- and tailroom but that space would be
> part of other packets.
>
> Is it ok to do this? Will something freak out if we pass a cloned skb to
> netif_rx()?
>
This would be great even in regular case. 4965 has ability to deliver
more frames per receiving buffer
Because of A-MSDU we keeps 8K receiving buffers which are
underutilized when A-MSDU is not used.

> johannes
>