netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH]: TCP + SACK + skb processing latency

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Message-Id: <20080226.224555.239440389.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:45:55 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH]: TCP + SACK + skb processing latency

From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:18:02 +0200 (EET)

Interesting idea... it is like a baby step towards a more efficient
write queue data management facility :-)

> I'd appreciate if somebody with more knowledge about skb internals could 
> take a look at the relevant parts (mainly skb_shift) and confirm that 
> doing all this I'm trying to do is allowed :-).

It looks good.  You never have to worry about skb's in the write queue
having headers, ever.  They only contain data.


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