Re: problem in do_tcp_sendpages

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From: Sanjay Kumar <coolsanjay@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:46:17 +0900

> So when i try to free the page the page does not get freed resulting
> in a kind of memory leak.

It gets freed later when the TCP send has completed at the
device, and the other end has sent an ACK back to acknowledge
the data.  Meanwhile the packet sits referenced in the TCP
retransmit queue and cannot be freed.

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