On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:38:16PM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote: > Currently, incoming packets are reassembled in a sk_buff which is then > sent to the upper layers. The sk_buff needs to be big enough to hold the > worst case packet since the size cannot be known in advance. This would > not be so bad if the ATM layer paid attention to the mtu (usually 1500 bytes), > but for some reason it blithely ignores it and typically passes 9188 bytes > as the maximum size. This means that at best 5/6 of the space in every > sk_buff is wasted. So instead let's just allocate an assembly buffer (sarb) > which gets reused for every packet, and copy each assembled packet into > a minimally sized sk_buff before sending.
Applied, thanks. greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
