From: Saikiran Madugula <hummerbliss@gmail.com>
To: Radha Mohan <radhamohan_ch@yahoo.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can we reuse an skb
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:37:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3B6A71.9060709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <962874.62146.qm@web94813.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
Radha Mohan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For an ethernet driver, we need to allocate some pool of SKBs for receiving packets. Is there any way we can reuse the same SKBs without the need to re-allocate in atomic every time one has been used up for netif_rx().
>
> Any pointers will be helpful.
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/9/28/3433504
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-19 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-19 6:46 can we reuse an skb Radha Mohan
2009-06-19 6:51 ` jon_zhou
2009-06-19 7:10 ` Radha Mohan
2009-06-19 7:21 ` Peter Chacko
2009-06-19 10:37 ` Saikiran Madugula [this message]
2009-06-19 18:41 ` Neil Horman
2009-06-19 16:56 ` Rick Jones
2009-06-19 23:29 ` David Miller
2009-06-20 3:54 ` Peter Chacko
2009-06-20 8:00 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-06-20 11:51 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-06-21 5:41 ` Peter Chacko
2009-06-21 5:49 ` David Miller
2009-06-21 11:46 ` [RFD] Pluggable code design (was: can we reuse an skb) Al Boldi
2009-06-21 11:46 ` Al Boldi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-19 10:11 can we reuse an skb Nicholas Van Orton
2009-06-22 13:34 ` Philby John
2009-06-22 13:56 ` Peter Chacko
2009-06-22 14:33 ` Philby John
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