[PATCH] skb destructor enhancement idea

From: Will (will@egregious.net)
Date: Mon Jun 25 2001 - 16:06:13 EST

Here is a patch against 2.4.6pre5 that implements a gneric, 'chainable' destructor
mechanism for sk_buff structures. It allows for an arbitrary number of ordered
destructor calls for skbs.

We are currently using this change in a low-level packet monitoring module so we can
allocate our own packet memory and get called back when the skb is done moving
through the stack. It seems like it should be useful to allow network drivers to
implement their own device-specific memory management and thus reduce mem copying
overhead, too.

Any driver people want to try it out and see if they can make their driver use it to
reduce copying?

Any comments on the idea in general? 

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