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From: Aaron Williams <awilliams@atheros.com>
Subject: skb allocation size question
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:51:02 -0700
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Hi,

I have been trying to track down an issue in one of our drivers with SKB 
allocation and in my research I came across something that seems a bit 
strange. In __alloc_skb, a block for the data allocates size + sizeof(struct 
skb_shared_info) bytes, yet skb->truesize is set to size + sizeof(struct 
sk_buff). Is there a reason for this discrepancy?

-Aaron Williams