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From: Hideo AOKI <haoki@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, haoki@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [NET] [0/2] pskb_expand_head() bugfix
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:14:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ED97EF.9070601@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080327.164935.45964955.davem@davemloft.net>

Hello,

David Miller wrote:
> From: Hideo AOKI <haoki@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:47:35 -0400
> 
>> I think that it is inconvenient for caller functions to need
>> updateing truesize by themselves.
> 
> Most cases what I can see are in spots where skb->truesize
> cannot be modified because the SKB is possibly charged
> to a socket.
> 
> In these limited situations where skb->truesize adjustments
> really are needed, and legal, it is no harm to open code
> things.

Thank you for the comments.

I understood that updating truesize by caller wasn't problem.
And, I may misunderstand the spots where truesize can't be changed.

Then, I make patch to update truesize for each network subsystem and
ask a review of the patch. 

Best regards,
Hideo

--
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-29  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-25 18:39 [RFC] [NET] [0/2] pskb_expand_head() bugfix Hideo AOKI
2008-03-25 18:41 ` [RFC PATCH] [NET] [1/2] revert audit_expand() Hideo AOKI
2008-03-25 18:41 ` [RFC PATCH] [NET] [2/2] pskb_expand_head() updates truesize Hideo AOKI
2008-03-25 23:55 ` [RFC] [NET] [0/2] pskb_expand_head() bugfix Herbert Xu
2008-03-26 20:47   ` Hideo AOKI
2008-03-27  0:13     ` Herbert Xu
2008-03-29  1:01       ` Hideo AOKI
2008-03-27 23:49     ` David Miller
2008-03-29  1:14       ` Hideo AOKI [this message]
2008-03-27 23:48 ` David Miller
2008-03-29  1:02   ` Hideo AOKI
2008-03-29  1:11     ` David Miller
2008-03-29  1:21       ` Hideo AOKI

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