netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 net] net: use skb_clone to avoid alloc

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Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 05:49:08 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	martinbj2008@...il.com
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Junwei Zhang <linggao.zjw@...baba-inc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net] net: use skb_clone to avoid alloc_pages failure.

On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 05:07 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 20:49 +0800, martinbj2008@...il.com wrote:
> > From: Martin Zhang <martinbj2008@...il.com>
> > 
> > 1. new skb only need dst and ip address(v4 or v6).
> > 2. skb_copy may need high order pages, which is very rare on long running server.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Junwei Zhang <linggao.zjw@...baba-inc.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Zhang <martinbj2008@...il.com>
> > ---
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 

BTW, very nice catch, thanks guys !


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