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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add alloc_skb_with_frags() helper
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:25:44 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:49:49 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> Extract from sock_alloc_send_pskb() code building skb with frags,
> so that we can reuse this in other contexts.
> 
> Intent is to use it from tcp_send_rcvq(), tcp_collapse(), ...
> 
> We also want to replace some skb_linearize() calls to a more reliable
> strategy in pathological cases where we need to reduce number of frags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Looks good, applied.