Data is put in the fragments. No need to alloc a skb with unnecessarily large data buffer. Suggested-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/qlge/TODO | 2 -- drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO b/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO index 0e26fac1ddc5..49cb09fc2be4 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/TODO @@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ ql_build_rx_skb(). That function is now used exclusively to handle packets that underwent header splitting but it still contains code to handle non split cases. -* in the "chain of large buffers" case, the driver uses an skb allocated with - head room but only puts data in the frags. * rename "rx" queues to "completion" queues. Calling tx completion queues "rx queues" is confusing. * struct rx_ring is used for rx and tx completions, with some members relevant diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c index 6dd69b689a58..c91969b01bd5 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c @@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ static void qlge_process_mac_rx_page(struct qlge_adapter *qdev, struct napi_struct *napi = &rx_ring->napi; size_t hlen = ETH_HLEN; - skb = netdev_alloc_skb(ndev, length); + skb = napi_alloc_skb(&rx_ring->napi, SMALL_BUFFER_SIZE); if (!skb) { rx_ring->rx_dropped++; put_page(lbq_desc->p.pg_chunk.page); @@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *qlge_build_rx_skb(struct qlge_adapter *qdev, * jumbo mtu on a non-TCP/UDP frame. */ lbq_desc = qlge_get_curr_lchunk(qdev, rx_ring); - skb = netdev_alloc_skb(qdev->ndev, length); + skb = napi_alloc_skb(&rx_ring->napi, SMALL_BUFFER_SIZE); if (!skb) { netif_printk(qdev, probe, KERN_DEBUG, qdev->ndev, "No skb available, drop the packet.\n"); -- 2.32.0