[Cc'ing davem] yes, David Miller did so. If I remember correctly, his reasoning for skb_header_pointer() was that even though we are not guaranteed a completely linear transport layer header, it does
Thanks for letting me know about this after we agreed upon skb_header_pointer() (or somthing like it) at the networking conference _AND_ I did the full implementation for you Harald. Or did you just
I totally disagree with this change. The goal was to eliminate any and all linearization done by any part of the networking, especially on output paths.
No offence meant, Dave :) I am grateful that you did this work, please don't get me wrong. Yasuyiki's first implementation dates July 29th. The one that I'm referring to was a patch from August 8th.
Ok, that's fine with me. Let's stay with the skb_header_pointer(), which by the way [as expected] is not visible on my profile runs. Still, I am curious to know if anyone on one of the Cc'ed mailingl
A driver could do this, by putting all receive SKB data into pages. I am not aware of any that currently do this. Such a driver would have to be very careful, as things like the ethernet header parsi