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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com,
	pabeni@redhat.com, willemb@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: skbuff: let struct skb_ext live inside the head
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:13:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230215101356.3b86c451@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230215094332.GB9908@breakpoint.cc>

On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 10:43:32 +0100 Florian Westphal wrote:
> I think the cleaner solution would be to move the new extension ids
> into sk_buff itself (at the end, uninitialized data unless used).
> 
> Those extensions would always reside there and not in the slab object.

Do you mean the entire extension? 8B of metadata + (possibly) 32B 
of the key?

> Obviously that only makes sense for extensions where we assume
> that typical workload will require them, which might be a hard call to
> make.

I'm guessing that's the reason why Google is okay with putting the key
in the skb - they know they will use it most of the time. But an
average RHEL user may appreciate the skb growth for an esoteric protocol
to a much smaller extent :(

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-15 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-15  3:44 [RFC] net: skbuff: let struct skb_ext live inside the head Jakub Kicinski
2023-02-15  8:53 ` Paolo Abeni
2023-02-15 17:58   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-02-15  9:43 ` Florian Westphal
2023-02-15 14:37   ` Willem de Bruijn
2023-02-15 18:10     ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-02-15 18:13   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-02-16 13:28     ` Florian Westphal

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