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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, chris.leech@gmail.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] avoid unnecessary alignement overhead in skb->data allocation.
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:41:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060807.174142.88474584.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4807377b0608071709j26da1092la20f1589c7b90df7@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Jesse Brandeburg" <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 17:09:39 -0700

> also, eth_type_trans wants skb->data to point to header, which would
> require us to memcpy data from a page back to skb->data.

You merely would need to call pskb_may_pull() right before invoking
eth_type_trans.  Meeting that functions expectations with a non-linear
SKB is not brain surgery. :-)


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-07  6:01 [RFC] avoid unnecessary alignement overhead in skb->data allocation Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07  6:23 ` David Miller
2006-08-07  6:30   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07  7:17   ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-07  7:24     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07  7:28       ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-07  7:31         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07  7:39           ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-08  0:09             ` Jesse Brandeburg
2006-08-08  0:41               ` David Miller [this message]
2006-08-08  5:24               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-08  5:41                 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-08  5:55                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07  6:29 ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-07  6:36   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-07  6:42     ` Herbert Xu
2006-08-07  8:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-08-07  8:14   ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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