Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Now the only question I
have is why don't we charge the user for the shared overhead? Should
there be a way for a user to determine what the size of the overhead is
(to remove "hidden charges")? If nothing else, maybe the documentation
could mention it.
Thanks again,
Charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-net-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-net-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of David S. Miller
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:51 PM
To: Charlie Brett
Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Question]: Buffer management in skbuff.c
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:30:36 -0700
"Charlie Brett" <cfb@ldl.fc.hp.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have an explaination/history on this? I would like to
> propose enhancing/changing it.
Good luck because I'm not likely to entertain such ideas. :-)
It's so that a user cannot generate a stream of 1 byte packets and only
get charged for 1 byte even though he is comsuming much more unswappable
memory in the system.
If you want to not have things get accounted this way, you may want to
consider using BSD for example :-) (actually, I think they do what we
do these days)
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