On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:14:27PM +0800, Yi Yang ([email protected]) wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov ??????:
> >On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 06:03:04PM +0800, Yi Yang ([email protected])
> >wrote:
> >
> >>>>Can you explain why there is such a big difference between
> >>>>netlink_unicast and netlink_broadcast?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Netlink broadcast clones skbs, while unicasting requires the whole new
> >>>one.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>No, I also use clone to send skb, so they should have the same overhead.
> >>
> >
> >I missed that.
> >After rereading fsevent_send_to_process() I do not see how original skb
> >is freed though.
> >
> I'm considering how to free it, because cloned skbs share data with
> original skb, so this case is special,
> I try to clarify the logic of kfree_skb.
Just call kfree_skb() after fsevent_send_to_process() or at the very
end of this function. If unicast delivering fails you also need to free cloned skb.
> >
> >>>>>Btw, you need some rebalancing of the per-cpu queues, probably in
> >>>>>keventd, since CPUs can go offline and your messages will stuck foreve
> >>>>>there.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>Does keventd not do it? if so, keventd should be modified.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>How does keventd know about your own structures?
> >>>You have an per-cpu object, but your keventd function gets object
> >>>
> >>>from running cpu, not from any other cpus.
> >>
> >
> >
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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