Re: [PATCH 7/9] net: add skb_orphan_frags to copy aside frags with destructors
From: Ian Campbell <hidden>
Date: 2012-05-04 10:51:34
From: Ian Campbell <hidden>
Date: 2012-05-04 10:51:34
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 11:03 +0100, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 02:54:33AM -0400, David Miller wrote:quoted
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 00:10:24 +0300quoted
Hmm we orphan skbs when we loop them back so how about reusing the skb->destructor for this?That's one possibility. But I fear we're about to toss Ian into yet another rabbit hole. :-) Let's try to converge on something quickly as I think integration of his work has been delayed enough as-is.This is more intrusive than I'd like because on error we need to free the skb, so need to return error code from orphan, but it does not add an extra branch since skb_orphan is inline. So intrusive but should not hurt fast path. It's weekend here, I'll work on a patch like this Sunday.
Thanks, I was starting to feel my nose twitching and my ears beginning to elongate ;-) Ian.