From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: reasons for dev_alloc_skb +16? Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:25:53 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030709152553.GB15293@gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Content-Disposition: inline Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org I knew this at one time, but have forgotten it :) What is the reason for adding 16 to the dev_alloc_skb length? (and skb_reserve of the same length) Jeff