Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/9] deadlock prevention core

Daniel Phillips
2006-08-09T01:34:43Z

Thomas Graf wrote:
> skb->dev is not guaranteed to still point to the "allocating" device
> once the skb is freed again so reserve/unreserve isn't symmetric.
> You'd need skb->alloc_dev or something.

Can you please characterize the conditions under which skb->dev changes
after the alloc? Are there writings on this subtlety?

Regards,

Daniel