From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
Cc: chas williams <chas@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ATM] who 'owns' the skb created by drivers/atm?
Date: 20 Feb 2003 22:22:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1045808570.22228.2.camel@rth.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302211241070.12797-100000@blackbird.intercode.com.au>
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 17:42, James Morris wrote:
> skb->cb is owned by whatever layer is currently processing the skb.
Furthermore, once you netif_rx() an SKB it is no longer yours.
It is owned by the networking stack.
If the ATM layer wants to do fancy things and still pass the SKB
to netif_rx(), _it_ should clone the SKB and give that clone to
the ATM layer directly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-21 5:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-21 1:18 [ATM] who 'owns' the skb created by drivers/atm? chas williams
2003-02-21 1:42 ` James Morris
2003-02-21 6:22 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-02-21 6:12 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-02-21 6:00 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-21 6:24 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-02-21 16:08 ` chas williams
2003-02-23 3:15 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-02-24 1:55 ` chas williams
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