Re: Preallocated skb's?

From: Matthew Kirkwood (matthew@hairy.beasts.org)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 07:06:03 EST


On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, David S. Miller wrote:

> Does anyone think that allocating skbs during system idle time
> would be useful?
>
> I really don't like these sorts of things, because it makes an
> assumption as to what memory is about to be used for.

I agree. Surely The Linux Way (tm) would be to make the
allocations so cheap that prealocation would gain you
nothing.

Matthew.

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