On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 02:03:50PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:Regardless of whether this is the problem, banning ksize because it can be abused is like banning cars because they can kill people. For example, Ethernet skbs are 1500 bytes long, so using ksize we could potentially use the left-over memory for temporary storage. Without it all this memory goes to waste. On a machine that's doing a lot of networking this could save a signifcant amount of memory. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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