Hello.
Iam looking for a way so that a networking device
driver, after it hands the sk_buff up the protocol stack (netif_rx)
right when its appropriate for the buffer to go to the free pool
it checks for ref counts and then calls the destructor function with
the skb ptr.
Most usages dont seem to use this one, but just use this as a means to
allocate another skb (using some private fields from here) and just
disregard this
buffer.
Alan seemed to indicate there is some possible work going on here
and this recycle of skb's back to the network device driver
would be a big plus for us.
any pointers here would be greatly apprecited
ashokr
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 12:00 PM
To: ashok.raj@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: destructor use in skb
Currently its there for AF_UNIX garbage collecting. I know Dave & Ingo
experimented with per device recycling. You might want to ask the
netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx list.
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