Re: [RFC PATCH v7 01/19] Add a new structure for skb buffer from external.

Herbert Xu
2010-06-17T11:21:25Z

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 04:58:36PM +0800, Xin, Xiaohui wrote:
>
> Herbert,
> In this way, I think we should create 3 functions at least in drivers to allocate rx buffer, to receive the rx buffers, and to clean the rx buffers.
>
> We can also have another way here. We can provide a function to only substitute
> alloc_page(), and a function to release the pages when cleaning the rx buffers.

Yes that's exactly what I had in mind.

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