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

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Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:34:14 +0200 (EET)
From:	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH]: TCP + SACK + skb processing latency

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, David Miller wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for taking a look, I've mostly added the missing bits to the
TCP side so I hope I can soon begin some testing with it... :-)

-- 
 i.