Re: skb diet

2006-04-16 Thread Hisham Kotry
> Where would that tag list be stored if you want to remove the > 40 bytes of ->cb? I apologize if I wasn't clear, the tag list would go in a new skb->tags field replacing the existsing skb->cb array, so the skb would lose 40-sizeof(void*) bytes wich seems reasonable to me. > Linux 2.0 did someth

skb diet

2006-04-15 Thread Hisham Kotry
Hi, I just read David S. Miller's skb redundancy page and in it he seems to suggest taking an approach similar to that of BSD's mbufs to reduce the skb's size. I was going to do some janitor work on the network stack and I thought that maybe I could start by adding a tag list to the skb similar to