Re: Preallocated skb's?

[Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:

>    Does anyone think that allocating skbs during system idle time
>    would be useful?
> 
> I really don't like these sorts of things, because it makes an
> assumption as to what memory is about to be used for.

I agree.  Surely The Linux Way (tm) would be to make the
allocations so cheap that prealocation would gain you
nothing.

Matthew.