From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?R=E9mi?= Denis-Courmont" Subject: Re: linear sk_buff Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:35:08 +0300 Message-ID: <201005052235.09108.remi@remlab.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Ryden Return-path: Received: from yop.chewa.net ([91.121.105.214]:37503 "EHLO yop.chewa.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754980Ab0EETl3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 15:41:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le mercredi 5 mai 2010 22:12:06 Mark Ryden, vous avez =E9crit : > 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 confuse= d and > googling made me overconfused) A linear sk_buff is one that has no memory pages and no fragments sk_bu= ff. Such a buffer is made of a contiguous portion of the (kernel) memory. --=20 R=E9mi Denis-Courmont http://www.remlab.net/ http://fi.linkedin.com/in/remidenis