Re: [DEBUG]: sk_forward_alloc assertion failures

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

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:55:04 +1100
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As long as we're careful about what we've allocated in the skb then
> everything will be alright.  We're in trouble right now with mixed
> sendmsg/sendpages calls and changing MSSs only because we're not
> careful about keeping track of how much memory we've allocated
> at the start.

I see, but we don't want sendmsg() to charge a full MSS if the
user is only writing 10 bytes of data onto the wire.  That seems
to be what happens if we implement things the way you are suggesting.