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Message-ID: <CANn89iK2r54xfcoUT18MXTQ72mR8vVzoUyHLcBx8-7QibtsVCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2023 10:17:17 +0100
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: skbuff: drop the word head from skb cache

On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 7:06 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> skbuff_head_cache is misnamed (perhaps for historical reasons?)
> because it does not hold heads. Head is the buffer which skb->data
> points to, and also where shinfo lives. struct sk_buff is a metadata
> structure, not the head.
>
> Eric recently added skb_small_head_cache (which allocates actual
> head buffers), let that serve as an excuse to finally clean this up :)
>
> Leave the user-space visible name intact, it could possibly be uAPI.

+1

>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Lets not rename 'struct sk_buff' :)

(Packets are not necessarily tied to a socket)

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