RE: skb allocation problems

[Imran.Patel@nokia.com]

> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:03:46PM +0300, Imran.Patel@nokia.com wrote:
> > I have written a test module which closely mirrors what my 
> code tries to
> > do(attached below). This is what i get:
> > 
> > PRE_R: old skb:c371ee40  new skb:c371ee30 
> 
> I guess oldskb->len is <=0xc, and the slab allocator packs 
> them near together
> in the same zone.

nope. i have checked it, the length of the older skb is perfectly ok.....and
i even found that this weird behaviour happens only when the old skb buffer
length is between 80 and 224 bytes. 

and apart from this problem, i even found out that when i send a packet >=
186 bytes the kernel allocates a lot of memory in the skb...the output from
a simple test module is below:

PRE_R: skb: c7aa0da0 skblen: 185 headroom: 32 tailroom: 7    total_len: 224
PRE_R: skb: c7a43020 skblen: 186 headroom: 32 tailroom: 1334 total_len: 1552

This was generated by sending ipv4 ping packets of different sizes...I
tested it using 2.4.1 and 2.4.3 on two machines (both dual stack).
What the hell's going on :( ???

imran