From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: skb_segment() questions
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:02:10 +0000
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On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:53:52PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:50:50AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >
> > I guess you mean non-linear skb with a header smaller than mtu? Well,
> > if it's the most common case now, I agree.
> 
> The common case is the path stemming from the TCP stack, where
> we always construct skb's with the entire payload in page frags,
> and only the header is placed in skb->data.

OK, then let's forget about this patch.

Thanks for the explanation,
Jarek P.