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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: skb_frag_t can be smaller on small
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:05:16 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:06:54 +0200

> David
> 
> I remember you reacted on my three years old comment about
> commit a309bb072b96bfe (Page offsets and lengths need to be __u32.)
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg43999.html
> 
> Could we reconsider the thing now and allow to shrink
> sizeof(skb_shared_info) from 0x104 to 0xbc, considering nothing happened
> about scatterlist work ?
> 
> This saves 128 bytes on i386 because of alignments, and can be reverted
> pretty fast if needed.

Yes, this seems reasonable.  I'll probably apply this, thanks!