From: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
To: Mark Ryden <markryde@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linear sk_buff
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:35:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005052235.09108.remi@remlab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <o2kdac45061005051212na062f611m1c87240c367b5d38@mail.gmail.com>
Le mercredi 5 mai 2010 22:12:06 Mark Ryden, vous avez écrit :
> Hello,
> I would appreciate if someone in this mailing list can say in a
> sentence or two what is a linear
> sk_buff and what is a non linear sk_buff; does it has to do with
> fragmentation? (I am sure that many know the answer, but I am confused and
> googling made me overconfused)
A linear sk_buff is one that has no memory pages and no fragments sk_buff.
Such a buffer is made of a contiguous portion of the (kernel) memory.
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Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/
http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-05 19:41 UTC|newest]
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2010-05-05 19:12 linear sk_buff Mark Ryden
2010-05-05 19:32 ` Phil Sutter
2010-05-05 19:35 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont [this message]
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