Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 16:11:44 EST


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 03:59:14PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> That's the part I referred to as a network own allocator. We can have
> multiple kmem_caches though for the popular MTUs and round up the
> requested size otherwise.

No we can't use kmem_caches because we're relying on using the
page refereounce count to free the page. It has to be naked
pages.

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