netdev - Re: [RFC 2/2] shrink size of scatterlist on common i386/x86-64

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Message-Id: <1183707826.6005.177.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:43:46 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] shrink size of scatterlist on common i386/x86-64

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 17:15 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Also even with the scatterlist idea, we'd still need to do two
> map calls, one for skb->data and one for the page vector.

We could make skb->shinfo(skb)->frags[0] the first segment and deprecate
skb->data and skb->len.

OK, you can stop hitting me now...
Rusty.


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