netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: pskb_expand

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Date:	Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:06:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	andrea@...sephoneslair.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: pskb_expand_head() optimization

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:09:08 +0200

> [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: pskb_expand_head() optimization
> 
> Move frags[] at the end of struct skb_shared_info, and make
> pskb_expand_head() copy only the used part of it instead of whole array.
> 
> This should avoid kmemcheck warnings and speedup pskb_expand_head() as
> well, avoiding a lot of cache misses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Maybe it's just that people aren't running kmemcheck when a
pskb_expand_head() triggers, who knows.

Anyways, since we skip the ->frag[] array in skb alloc, etc.,
your patch is of course fine.

Applied, thanks!
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