RE: [RFC PATCH v7 08/19] Make __alloc_skb() to get external buffer.

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Dumazet [mailto:eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 10:53 PM
>To: Xin, Xiaohui
>Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>mst@xxxxxxxxxx; mingo@xxxxxxx; davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
>jdike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v7 08/19] Make __alloc_skb() to get external buffer.
>
>Le samedi 05 juin 2010 à 18:14 +0800, xiaohui.xin@xxxxxxxxx a écrit :
>> From: Xin Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
>> 	child->fclone = SKB_FCLONE_UNAVAILABLE;
>>  	}
>> +	/* Record the external buffer info in this field. It's not so good,
>> +	 * but we cannot find another place easily.
>> +	 */
>> +	shinfo->destructor_arg = ext_page;
>> +
>
>
>Yes this is a big problem, its basically using a cache line that was not
>touched before.
>

Did your patch which moves destructor_arg before frags[] also fix this?

Thanks
Xiaohui
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