From: Jim Baxter <jim_baxter@mentor•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: <linux-usb@vger•kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
<netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <kamal@canonical•com>,
<bhutchings@solarflare•com>, <edumazet@google•com>,
<mszeredi@suse•cz>, <fw@strlen•de>
Subject: Re: skbuff truesize incorrect.
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 10:21:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537F130F.6080901@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140522.165833.414855217799383878.davem@davemloft.net>
On 22/05/14 21:58, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jim Baxter <jim_baxter@mentor•com>
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 21:21:55 +0100
>
>> If there are multiple clones for an skb all pointing at the same data,
>> will that distort the memory used when they all have the same truesize?
>
> What is distorted about it?
>
> Each clone references exactly that much backing memory.
>
Thank you for you help, I think distorted was the wrong word.
I think I am confused what truesize is used for it looks like it is used
to deallocate memory, is this correct?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-23 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-22 19:07 skbuff truesize incorrect Jim Baxter
2014-05-22 19:21 ` David Miller
2014-05-22 20:21 ` Jim Baxter
[not found] ` <537E5C63.7080607-nmGgyN9QBj3QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-22 20:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-22 20:58 ` David Miller
2014-05-23 9:21 ` Jim Baxter [this message]
2014-05-23 9:27 ` David Laight
2014-05-23 16:46 ` David Miller
2014-05-22 19:25 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-05-22 19:39 ` Jim Baxter
2014-05-22 19:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-22 20:21 ` Jim Baxter
2014-05-22 20:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-22 21:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-22 21:10 ` David Miller
2014-05-23 7:07 ` Bjørn Mork
2014-05-23 8:58 ` Jim Baxter
2014-05-23 9:33 ` Bjørn Mork
2014-05-23 14:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-23 15:44 ` Rick Jones
2014-05-23 16:00 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-23 8:52 ` David Laight
2014-05-23 9:48 ` Bjørn Mork
2014-05-23 10:45 ` David Laight
2014-05-23 11:13 ` Jim Baxter
2014-05-23 13:47 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-23 15:00 ` Jim Baxter
2014-05-23 15:30 ` David Laight
2014-05-23 15:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-05-23 20:18 ` David Miller
2014-05-27 15:23 ` David Laight
[not found] ` <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D1724E565-VkEWCZq2GCInGFn1LkZF6NBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-27 15:52 ` David Miller
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