From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] net: Add support for networking over Thunderbolt cable Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 09:27:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20170927.092709.1826177647592316221.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170925110738.68382-17-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> <20170926.214721.734746621809140934.davem@davemloft.net> <20170927134238.GC4630@lahna.fi.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, andreas.noever@gmail.com, michael.jamet@intel.com, yehezkel.bernat@intel.com, amir.jer.levy@intel.com, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com, lukas@wunner.de, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, andrew@lunn.ch, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170927134238.GC4630@lahna.fi.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Mika Westerberg Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:42:38 +0300 > Using build_skb() then would require to allocate larger buffer, that > includes NET_SKB_PAD + SKB_DATA_ALIGN(skb_shared_info) and that exceeds > page size. Is this something supported by build_skb()? It was not clear > to me based on the code and other users of build_skb() but I may be > missing something. You need NET_SKB_PAD before and SKB_DATA_ALIGN(skb_shared_info) afterwards. An order 1 page, if that's what you need, should work just fine.