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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()
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On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 09:52 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 07:28:46PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >
> > Yeah. That sucks. We should probably stick in an skb-friendly slab size
> > and see what happens on network benchmarks.
>
> I don't see how that's going to help since we don't want it to
> cross page boundaries either (having just wasted a day tracking
> down a virtual networking bug because of slab debugging and
> crossing page boundaries).

I'll bite.. what's wrong with page boundaries? Do we play per-SKB TLB
games in virtual network drivers?

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