On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:57:14AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Anton Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:56:47 +1100 > > > Any thoughts on this? The other option was to override dev_alloc_skb, > > but I would prefer not to if possible. > > There is still a lot of code that depends upon there being > a scratch of ~15 bytes there at the beginning of the SKB data > area.
What if the patch guaranteed 16 bytes of head room? You could end-up w/ cacheline + 16 bytes I suppose. Would that be too expensive? Just a thought... John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
