netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: more accurate skb truesize

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Date:	Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:33:52 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: more accurate skb truesize

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 05:26:21PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> skb truesize currently accounts for sk_buff struct and part of skb head.
> 
> Considering that skb_shared_info is larger than sk_buff, its time to
> take it into account for better memory accounting.
> 
> This patch introduces SKB_TRUESIZE(X) macro to centralize various
> assumptions into a single place.

It's still quite inaccurate, especially for the kmalloced data area if it's not
paged. It would be better to ask slab how much memory was really 
allocated. But at least this could be done more easily now with the new 
macro, so it's definitely a step in the right direction.

-Andi
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