On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 7:06 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > skbuff_head_cache is misnamed (perhaps for historical reasons?) > because it does not hold heads. Head is the buffer which skb->data > points to, and also where shinfo lives. struct sk_buff is a metadata > structure, not the head. > > Eric recently added skb_small_head_cache (which allocates actual > head buffers), let that serve as an excuse to finally clean this up :) > > Leave the user-space visible name intact, it could possibly be uAPI. +1 > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Lets not rename 'struct sk_buff' :) (Packets are not necessarily tied to a socket)
