Re: [Ksummit-2005-discuss] Summary of 2005 Kernel Summit Proposed Topics

[Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, jamal wrote:

> I think you may need to reserve some small amount of buffers per NIC 
> (<= RX DMA ring size) that are used as temporary buffers before the
> decision is made to reassign to the higher priority memory or drop. 

At that point you also know for which of the higher
priority sockets the packet is.

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