diff mbox

[RFC,v4,08/18] Ignore skb_reserve() when device is using external buffer.

Message ID 1272187206-18534-8-git-send-email-xiaohui.xin@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Headers show

Commit Message

Xin, Xiaohui April 25, 2010, 9:19 a.m. UTC
None
diff mbox

Patch

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 8949b15..4458dc8 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1206,6 +1206,15 @@  static inline int skb_tailroom(const struct sk_buff *skb)
  */
 static inline void skb_reserve(struct sk_buff *skb, int len)
 {
+	/* Since skb_reserve() is only for an empty buffer,
+	 * and when the skb is getting external buffer, we cannot
+	 * retain the external buffer has the same reserved space
+	 * in the header which kernel allocatd skb has, so have to
+	 * ignore this. And we have recorded the external buffer
+	 * info in the destructor_arg field, so use it as indicator.
+	 */
+	if (skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg)
+		return;
 	skb->data += len;
 	skb->tail += len;
 }