From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Daniel Ann <ktdann@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Trying to understand alloc_skb()
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:51:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050412135114.GB27920@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9b7ca657050412060556af952e@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:05:14PM +0900, Daniel Ann wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2005 9:24 PM, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > You may want to consider dev_alloc_skb...
>
> Ahh that's right. I remember reading a little comment on top dev_alloc_skb().
> Thank you so much. At least that inspired me :)
>
> Thing is, I got this error during a call to notifier_call_chain. So..
My guess would be that your best bet is to move your call to
notifier_call_chain off to a workqueue. notifier_call_chain (and/or
one or more of the functions it is calling) is likely written to
expect to be in process context.
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-12 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-12 8:38 Trying to understand alloc_skb() Daniel Ann
2005-04-12 8:49 ` Daniel Ann
2005-04-12 12:24 ` John W. Linville
2005-04-12 13:05 ` Daniel Ann
2005-04-12 13:51 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2005-04-13 4:40 ` Daniel Ann
2005-04-12 16:12 ` Eugene Surovegin
2005-04-13 4:50 ` Daniel Ann
2005-04-13 5:13 ` Eugene Surovegin
2005-04-13 12:32 ` Daniel Ann
2005-04-14 12:36 ` Daniel Ann
2005-04-13 6:05 ` Donald White
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