Re: when is alloc_skb called
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Sat Jun 26 2004 - 23:11:22 EST
Ben Collins wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 03:29:14PM -0600, Sushant Sharma wrote:
Hi All
I want to know which are the evnets
that can lead to the calling of alloc_skb
function which is used to allocate sk_buff.
Arrival and departure of packet are 2 events
which I know. Are there any other events/cases
which can lead to alloc_skb(...) function call in kernel.
Some non-network related drivers use skb's for non-network related
things (ieee1394 is one such abuser).
And some network protocol stacks use it to report events, like
connection requests, etc see the x25 code, for instance
(x25_establish_link, x25_terminate_link), sometimes allocating
1 byte, sometimes using the skb->cb scratch area.
- Arnaldo
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