Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Defragmentation proposal: preventative maintenance and cleanup [LONG] | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 07 Sep 2001 11:34:41 +0200 |
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Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk> writes:
> I'd be especially interested to know how we'd solve this for the > network stuff, which currently relies on physically contiguous packets > in memory. This is a *HUGE* change I think (larger than any we'd > make to the VM system).
It's already fixed in the network stack for at least the most important protocols. The 2.4 stack supports iovecs of pages in skbs and also linked lists of skbs for a single packet. The biggest killer used to be defragmentation; that will just pass around a linked list now. There are cases where defragmentation-into-a-big-buffer is still needed (e.g. for most of netfilter), but fixing that is just small incremental change.
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