netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IrDA] irda-usb TX path optimization

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:48:13 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	davem@...emloft.net (David Miller)
Cc:	samuel@...tiz.org, avl@...ic.at, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	irda-users@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IrDA] irda-usb TX path optimization

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
> Technically this is a bug fix too because once an SKB hits the
> transmit function it should essentially be immutable, ie. you
> shouldn't be writing to it.  tcpdump sniffers could be looking
> at the SKB, as one example.

We do have a way around that with skb_header_cloned.  In fact
it looks like VLAN should use it as otherwise TCP packets will
get copied unnecessarily.

This is still not optimal for AF_PACKET users since they will
still cause things like VLANs to do the copy even when it isn't
necessary because it doesn't touch any part of the packet that
AF_PACKET actually looks at.

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