So, in my case, I allocate a bunch of skb's that I want to be able to reuse during network operation (256 in fact). When I pass it up the stack, the stack will free that skb back to the system making any further use of it invalid until I call alloc_skb() again?
Thanks. > On Monday 26 October 2009 19:43:00 Jonathan Haws wrote: > > Quick question about the network stack in general: > > > > Does the stack itself release an SKB allocated by the device > driver back to the heap upstream, or does it require that the device > driver handle that? > > There's the concept of passing responsibilities for the frames > between > the networking layers. So the driver passes the frame and all > responsibilities > to the networking stack. So if the networking stack accepts the > packet in the first place, > it needs to free it (or pass it to somebody else to take care of). > > -- > Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
