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

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Date:	Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:37:28 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: pskb_expand_head() optimization

Le mardi 07 septembre 2010 à 09:16 +0000, Jarek Poplawski a écrit :
> On 2010-09-07 07:02, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> > 
> > I understand what you want to do, but problem is we need to perform a
> > CAS2 operation : atomically changes two values (dataref and frag_list)
> 
> Alas I can't understand why do you think these clone and atomic tests
> in skb_release_data() don't protect skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list enough.
> 

It was early in the morning, before a cup of tea.

David only had to set frag_list in the new shinfo, not the old.



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