From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Sushant Sharma <sushant@cs.unm.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: when is alloc_skb called
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:57:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040607225744.GA26253@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40C4DE2A.1070008@cs.unm.edu>
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:29:14PM -0600, Sushant Sharma wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I want to know which are the evnets
> that can lead to the calling of alloc_skb
> function which is used to allocate sk_buff.
> Arrival and departure of packet are 2 events
> which I know. Are there any other events/cases
> which can lead to alloc_skb(...) function call in kernel.
Some non-network related drivers use skb's for non-network related
things (ieee1394 is one such abuser).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-07 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-07 21:29 when is alloc_skb called Sushant Sharma
2004-06-07 22:57 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2004-06-26 5:16 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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