netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: Fix page seeking for skb_splice

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Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:50:13 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jarkao2@...il.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: Fix page seeking for skb_splice_bits().

From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:58:06 +0100

> So, you both were right there is something wrong with splice for
> multipage linear regions, at least theoretically. Since I don't know
> if this can really matter in practice (could NUMA slab allocate these
> pages from different tables?), I've done it against -net, but maybe
> -net-next is enough?

I'll add this to net-next-2.6 because I think it's theoretical at
best.  In fact I don't think we would get allocations across
NUMA nodes in this situation.

Thanks Jarek.
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