Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That should not be any problem, since skb's (including cowed ones) > are short lived anyway. Allocating a little bit more memory is > fine when we have a guarantee that the memory will be freed again > shortly.
I'm not sure about the context the comment applies to, but skb's are not necessarily short-lived. For example, they could be queued for a few seconds for ARP/NDISC and even longer for IPsec SA resolution. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
