netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] iwl3945: better skb management in rx path

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Date:	Sat, 29 Jun 2013 01:05:02 +0200
From:	"Steinar H. Gunderson" <sesse@...gle.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Paul Stewart <pstew@...gle.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] iwl3945: better skb management in rx path

2013/6/28 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>:
> Steinar reported reallocations of skb->head with IPv6, leading to
> a warning in skb_try_coalesce()
>
> It turns out iwl3945 has several problems :
>
> 1) skb->truesize is underestimated.
>    We really consume PAGE_SIZE bytes for a fragment,
>    not the frame length.
> 2) 128 bytes of initial headroom is a bit low and forces reallocations.
> 3) We can avoid consuming a full page for small enough frames.

I'm running 3.9.8 plus this patch (hand-applied since GMail mangled
it…), and so far, it seems to work fine. Well, network-manager still
doesn't like Cisco's band-select feature, so from time to time I get
network freezes while it's trying to roam from 5 GHz to 2.4 GHz, but
that's hardly iwl3945's fault.

/* Steinar */
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Software Engineer, Google Switzerland
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