netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: increase skb->users instead of skb

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Message-Id: <20101219.215034.59672253.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:50:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiaosuo@...il.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, therbert@...gle.com, jpirko@...hat.com,
	fenghua.yu@...el.com, junchangwang@...il.com, xinan.tang@...el.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: increase skb->users instead of skb_clone()

From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:57:25 +0800

> In dev_queue_xmit_nit(), we have to clone skbs as we need to mangle skbs,
> however, we don't need to clone skbs for all the packet_types.
> 
> Except for the first packet_type, we increase skb->users instead of
> skb_clone().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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