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On 03/10/2013 11:16 AM, Tom Tucker wrote:
> 
> This is the result of 2773395b34883fe54418de188733a63bb38e0ad6. Steve
> might want to weigh in on this since it was done for performance reasons.
> 
> Tom
> 

It seems to me that the cost of a kmalloc()/kfree() is negligible
compared to network speeds.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com