On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:19:08PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > > > Finally, mac80211 doesn't support paged Rx yet. So we linearize the skb > > > for all the management frames and software decryption or defragmentation > > > required data frames before handed to mac80211. For all the other frames, > > > we __pskb_pull_tail 64 bytes in the linear area of the skb for mac80211 > > > to handle them properly. > > > > This seems to be big overhead, but since there is no way to avoid it ... > > Which case? The linear one is the same as the current implementation. Considering swcrypt for example. This patch make things worse as we still need to do the same skb allocation as before, plus additional pages allocation, plus additional memcpy. No ? Cheers Stanislaw -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
