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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 04:14:20 +0200

> My next step is to provide a common helper to NAPI drivers to replace 
> netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int len)
> 
> by :
> 
> struct sk_buff *napi_alloc_rxskb(struct napi_struct *napi, unsigned int len)
> 
> That will manage a cache of one page, splitted in fragments as needed.
> (roughly the code we added in tg3 as POC)
> 
> Because converting drivers to build_skb() is a too slow process.

Sounds good.