On 05/01/2014 06:42 PM, Pranay Srivastava wrote: > I was going through a function > > dev_alloc_skb > > and it seems that the skb_frags are created only if the data length > passed is > PAGE_SIZE. > > My question is that an Ethernet frame won't be bigger than 1500 bytes > [correct?] so there never will be skb_frags for Ethernet frames. No, you should consider TSO and GSO things. Thanks > However I've seen skb_frags appeared when sending large data. > > I'm not sure how to understand this. Does the driver pokes IP header > to check how many fragments would be coming and decides (on the rcv > side) how much to pass in dev_alloc_skb ? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
