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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once
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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:13:45 +0300

> What is the best solution for the data corruption bug? To copy the data
> all the time or implement own allocator to be used in alloc_skb and
> friends to allocate the head? I think it can be done transparently for
> the drivers. I can volunteer for this :)
> The first one is more appropriate for the current bugfix-only stage,
> but this will result in the whole release being too slow.

I am looking into this right now.

I wish there were some way we could make this code grab and release a
reference to the SKB data area (I mean skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref) to
accomplish it's goals.


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