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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox•net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: chamaken@gmail•com, fw@strlen•de, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netlink, mmap: transform mmap skb into full skb on taps
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:18:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F3534E.4050405@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150911.143459.1484553569083753621.davem@davemloft.net>

On 09/11/2015 11:34 PM, David Miller wrote:
...
> Another approach would be to put the mmap user data into a page frag,
> but that obviously has some costs associated with it.  However,
> nothing in netlink is ready for fragged skbs yet.  It's the reason why
> we have the large skb via vmalloc facility.
>
> Long term fixing that is probably the way to go, but that would be an
> enormous project.

Yeah, that could resolve it.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-11 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-10 18:05 [PATCH net] netlink, mmap: transform mmap skb into full skb on taps Daniel Borkmann
2015-09-11  5:11 ` David Miller
2015-09-11 10:25   ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-09-11 19:42     ` David Miller
2015-09-11 20:35       ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-09-11 21:34         ` David Miller
2015-09-11 22:18           ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]

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