netdev - Re: [PATCH] Re: PACKET_TX_RING: packet size is too long

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Message-ID: <20091029102923.GA15314@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu>
Date:	Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:29:24 +0100
From:	Gabor Gombas <gombasg@...aki.hu>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, johann.baudy@...-log.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: PACKET_TX_RING: packet size is too long

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:19:17AM -0700, David Miller wrote:

> From: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@...aki.hu>
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:10:29 +0200
> 
> > Currently PACKET_TX_RING forces certain amount of every frame to remain
> > unused. This probably originates from an early version of the
> > PACKET_TX_RING patch that in fact used the extra space when the (since
> > removed) CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP_ZERO_COPY option was enabled. The current
> > code does not make any use of this extra space.
> > 
> > This patch removes the extra space reservation and lets userspace make
> > use of the full frame size.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@...aki.hu>
> 
> Applied, thanks!

Thanks! Does it have a chance to be included in 2.6.32, or it is too
late in the rc series?

Gabor

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