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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] truesize lies
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:25:09 -0700
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Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> writes:

> After some analysis, I found full sized tcp skbs (len=1440) had a 2864
> bytes truesize on my wifi adapter. Ouch...

It's probably more like 4096. slab rounds to powers of two.

> What should we do exactly ?

Give up? It's always been a lie.

-Andi

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