Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC]: Support for zero-copy TCP transmit of user space data | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:27:23 +0100 |
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Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net> writes: > > - Although usage of struct page to keep network related pointer might > look as a layering violation, it isn't. I wrote in > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/15/190 why.
Sorry but extending struct page for this is really a bad idea because of the extreme memory overhead even when it's not used (which is a problem on distribution kernels) Find some other way to store this information. Even for patches with more general value it was not acceptable.
-Andi
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