Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932161AbYF3SMw (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:12:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757824AbYF3SMl (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:12:41 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:32994 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756110AbYF3SMl (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:12:41 -0400 To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , , lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add missing skb->dev assignment in Frame Relay RX code References: <20080629130420.62d00d59@extreme> <20080630101948.535496a9@extreme> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:12:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080630101948.535496a9@extreme> (Stephen Hemminger's message of "Mon\, 30 Jun 2008 10\:19\:48 -0700") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 16 Stephen Hemminger writes: > netdev_alloc_skb does two things: > 1) it sets skb->dev > 2) on some platforms it can choose memory "closer" to the device. > but this is really a NUMA issue I see. It looks like I should use it for sending control messages then. Thanks. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/