Re: r8169: page allocation failure

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:08:37 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 05:47:52PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > 
> > It should instead allocate a new skb of 1 mss.  I'll work on it.
> 
> In fact it was allocating space that it wasn't even using :)
> 
> The following patch makes it allocate skb_headlen(skb) - len instead
> of skb->len - len.  When skb is linear there is no difference.  When
> it's non-linear we only ever copy the bytes in the header.
> 
> Please let me know whether this fixes your problem.

Looks great, good catch.  Patch applied.