netdev - Re: [PATCH] Re: skb_segment() questions

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Message-ID: <20090401100209.GC5970@ff.dom.local>
Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:02:10 +0000
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	James Huang <jamesclhuang@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: skb_segment() questions

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:53:52PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:50:50AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >
> > I guess you mean non-linear skb with a header smaller than mtu? Well,
> > if it's the most common case now, I agree.
> 
> The common case is the path stemming from the TCP stack, where
> we always construct skb's with the entire payload in page frags,
> and only the header is placed in skb->data.

OK, then let's forget about this patch.

Thanks for the explanation,
Jarek P.
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