Re: skb_shared_info()

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:36:16 +1000

> I'm not sure whether the problem is where we store skb_shared_info,
> or the fact that we can't put kmalloc'ed memory into
> skb_shinfo->frags.

That's a good point.

I guess we could do something like:

struct skb_frag_struct {
	union {
		struct page *page;
		void *data;
	} u;
	__u16 page_offset;
	__u16 size;
};

and something clever like a special page_offset encoding
means "use data, not page".