For deaggregation, the real device receives a large linear skb and passes it on to rmnet. rmnet creates new skbs from this large frame.
If the real device supports recycling, it does not need to allocate the large skbs during packet reception and can instead reuse them. Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subas...@codeaurora.org> --- drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c index 29842cc..7869fcf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c @@ -108,7 +108,10 @@ static void rmnet_set_skb_proto(struct sk_buff *skb) while ((skbn = rmnet_map_deaggregate(skb)) != NULL) __rmnet_map_ingress_handler(skbn, port); - consume_skb(skb); + if (skb->destructor) + skb->destructor(skb); + else + consume_skb(skb); } else { __rmnet_map_ingress_handler(skb, port); } -- 1.9.1