Re: [DEBUG]: sk_forward_alloc assertion failures

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

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:37:37 +1100
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:12:34PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > 
> > [ BTW, Herbert, it just occurred to me that these adjustments
> >   are incorrect for the skb->data pulling case since we really
> >   aren't liberating the data. ]
> 
> Yes but I thought the idea was to fake it so the application
> can transmit more packets? Without TSO, the data would've been
> freed at this point.

You're right.  At most we'll pseudo-free no more than 1 full
packet, so it's safe.