On (09/03/18 10:02), Steffen Klassert wrote: > I'm working on patches that builds such skb lists. The list is chained > at the frag_list pointer of the first skb, all subsequent skbs are linked > to the next pointer of the skb. It looks like this:
there are some risks to using the frag_list pointer, Alex Duyck had pointed this out to me in https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg131081.html (see last paragraph, or search for the string "gotcha" there) I dont know the details of your playground patch, but might want to watch out for those to make sure it is immune to these issues.. --Sowmini
