From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:16:31 +0200
> On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:56, Hisham Kotry wrote: > > > Linux 2.0 did something like this, but that was removed for good > > > reasons. Now TCP always clones skbs before sending it out. > > > > Do you remember what those reasons were? I couldn't find a related > > discussion in the archives. I think the BSD mbuf tags approach is > > sound enough to justify the move. > > From your description so far it seems to only have disadvantages. I totally agree, tags are very stupid. I only brought them up long as food-for-thought, not as a very serious candidate for implementation. Indirection is a performance killer, and we've seen this time and time again in the past. Tags add more indirection for questionable gains. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
