From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:03:30 -0700
> Instead of this private helper (and pretty limited one btw), we could > add a core function, that would build skbs with order-0 fragments. > > Instead of skb_linearize(), I guess many call sites could instead use > this new helper. > > Because as you said, skb_linearize() of one 64KB GSO packet can ask > order-5 allocations, and this generally does not work reliably. xen-netback could make use of this helper too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
