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Re: [RFC] zero-copy AMSDU processing

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On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 09:07 +0200, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
> On Monday, February 23, 2015 09:35:39 AM Johannes Berg wrote:
> > If the SKB has pages (rather than being linear, as
> > ieee80211_amsdu_to_8023s() assumes) then what Emmanuel said would
> > probably be the best approach, although it could be possible that would
> > mess up truesize accounting and lead to lower performance. Certainly
> > you'd want to do it only for suitably large packets (at least bigger
> > than 128 bytes or so)
> 
> Why is it important whether it has pages? Looks like I can play with
> pointers to the linear part as well.

I don't think that will work - it would crash later trying to free that
page, no?

Oh - you mean just skb_pull() and friends? That might actually work,
yeah.

johannes

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