From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4 net-next] net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:37:55 -0800 Message-ID: <1352428675.19779.490.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <1335522818.2775.227.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <509A19E6.4040707@gmail.com> <509A1D49.4080306@gmail.com> <1352286264.3140.3575.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <509B6368.9010206@gmail.com> <1352381449.19779.13.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <509C6AEF.4020300@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Netdev List To: Li Yu Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:56862 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756964Ab2KICh5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2012 21:37:57 -0500 Received: by mail-pa0-f46.google.com with SMTP id hz1so2437875pad.19 for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:37:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <509C6AEF.4020300@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 10:31 +0800, Li Yu wrote: > I think that adding skb->frag_head indeed is a better choice, this means > I have to rework some NIC drivers :( Not sure what you mean, since most (if not all) NIC drivers already use skb->frag_head in their RX path.