tree 99b006ffc7423205ded8616a21eb955f1fe046dd
parent 1de5a71c3e6eae2fbf15e9a9e13a8fc269bb82bc
author Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> 1337240056 +0000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1337284360 -0400

net: netdev_alloc_skb() use build_skb()

netdev_alloc_skb() is used by networks driver in their RX path to
allocate an skb to receive an incoming frame.

With recent skb->head_frag infrastructure, it makes sense to change
netdev_alloc_skb() to use build_skb() and a frag allocator.

This permits a zero copy splice(socket->pipe), and better GRO or TCP
coalescing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>