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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] network driver skb allocations
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 13:06:55 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 20:49:26 +0100

> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:06 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> [...]
>> Current logic for drivers is to :
>> 
>> allocate skbs (sk_buff + data) and put them in a ring buffer.
> 
> Not all of them.

In particular NIU always allocates SKBs at the time that it passes the
packet up to the stack.