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Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:35:08 +0300
From: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@...lab.net>
To: Mark Ryden <markryde@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linear sk_buff
Le mercredi 5 mai 2010 22:12:06 Mark Ryden, vous avez écrit :
> Hello,
> I would appreciate if someone in this mailing list can say in a
> sentence or two what is a linear
> sk_buff and what is a non linear sk_buff; does it has to do with
> fragmentation? (I am sure that many know the answer, but I am confused and
> googling made me overconfused)
A linear sk_buff is one that has no memory pages and no fragments sk_buff.
Such a buffer is made of a contiguous portion of the (kernel) memory.
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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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