Marc St-Jean wrote:
I asked if the remaining section (above) was acceptable so we could retain our buffer recycling which enhances throughput. I never received a rely so it was left in my last patch. The above comment now answers my part of my initial question. Are you aware of a better way to implement this or must we lose all our recycling enhancements?
You can poke around on netdev and ask about skb recycling in a new thread, and propose something.
I just know that having your own custom skb initialization is a non-starter. Any updates the main skb init code receives will inevitably -not- be propagate to your code, rapidly leading to an unmaintainable disconnect.
skb recycling in general is an interesting area to explore, and others have poked around that area before. I bet googling for skb recycling would turn up some useful thoughts and past efforts.
Jeff
