From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ian Brown" Subject: Re: Gentle Guide to the Network Stack Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:01:07 +0300 Message-ID: References: <200806171105.23069.okir@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Olaf Kirch" Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.152]:40296 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755961AbYFSLBL (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:01:11 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so358161fgg.17 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:01:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200806171105.23069.okir@lst.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, - This Linux network stack paper is a good and blessed initiative, and may be certailnly helpful to developers. I hope to see more of it in th future ! question: What do you mean by : "current kernels allocate these in as single entity named struct sockalloc," chapter 6 (page 19). I grepped for: struct sockalloc and struct sock_alloc under the kernel tree (git 2.6 netdev tree) and could not find such a thing. Regards, Ian On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Olaf Kirch wrote: > Hi all, > > I started putting together a paper on the Linux network stack, > focusing on how things fit together, and help relative beginners > understand the machinery, rather than giving a full-blown highly > detailed cross reference (which would be outdated more quickly > than you can re-run latex anyway :-) > I intend to release it under the GPL or GNU FDL or similar license - > I haven't fully made up my mind yet on what works best. > > You can find the first couple of pages at > http://oss.oracle.com/~okir/network/paper.pdf > > I'd be very interested in general feedback on the approach taken, > the level of detail and such. In case I missed the fact that > someone else is currently doing the same, please let me know, too. > > Cheers, > Olaf > -- > Olaf Kirch | --- o --- Nous sommes du soleil we love when we play > okir@lst.de | / | \ sol.dhoop.naytheet.ah kin.ir.samse.qurax > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >