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From: Radha Mohan <radhamohan_ch@yahoo.com>
Subject: can we reuse an skb
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:16:56 +0530 (IST)
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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.

-- Mohan


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