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From: Saikiran Madugula <hummerbliss@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: can we reuse an skb
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:37:37 +0100
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Radha Mohan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For an ethernet driver, we need to allocate some pool of SKBs for receiving packets. Is there any way we can reuse the same SKBs without the need to re-allocate in atomic every time one has been used up for netif_rx(). 
> 
> Any pointers will be helpful.
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2008/9/28/3433504