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From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: rahul b jain cs student <rbj2@oak.njit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sk_buff structure
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:24:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040622212403.21346.qmail@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:48:27 EDT." <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406221647570.10319@chrome.njit.edu>

> In this structure there are pointers called headroom, data, tailroom and
> end. Does anyone know what these are used for. Or can anyone point me to a
> good explanation for these fields.

There is a basic discussion in chapter 14 of Linux Device Drivers which
you can read online at http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html.

jon

Jonathan Corbet
Executive editor, LWN.net
corbet@lwn.net

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-22 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-22 20:48 sk_buff structure rahul b jain cs student
2004-06-22 21:24 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2004-06-22 23:03   ` rahul b jain cs student
2004-06-23 18:45   ` Question about ip_rcv() function rahul b jain cs student
2004-06-23 18:50     ` David S. Miller
2004-06-23 20:22       ` rahul b jain cs student
2004-06-23 20:32         ` David S. Miller
2004-06-23 20:43           ` rahul b jain cs student

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