Re: [PATCH 07/12] use a dynamic pool of sk_buffs to keep up withfast targets

[David Miller]

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:36:36 -0700

> My initial thought is that if there is a legitimate need for this
> new capability then it should be made available to other parts of
> the kernel rather than being private to the AEO driver.

Absolutely.

We even used to have something like this on a per-cpu basis but using
generic SLAB is so much better for caching and NUMA that we got rid of
that.

Every sk_buff private "quicklist" pool implementation you
see should essentially be NAK'd from the get go, it's
meaningless and if it's really needed one should investigate
why SKB allocations become such a problem instead of papering
over the issue. :-)
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