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Re: S/G operation, skb checksums, data copying

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> However, mac80211 needs to change the skb header before the skb is
> handed to the hardware. Often enough, the skb it will get is cloned, so
> it has to copy the header. Hence, it would benefit from having the
> actual skb data not be in the header, but that is unavoidable currently
> since we have no checksum features.

I just realised that this wouldn't happen since the extra data is
actually in a struct page *, so never mind.

johannes

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