Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:10:39 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: network driver that uses skb destructor |
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Sirotkin, Alexander wrote: > I would like to write a network driver that uses DMA and manages it's > own memory. > > The most common approach (in RX) seem to be to allocate the memory for > DMA transfer using dev_alloc_skb(), get the HW DMA engine to transfer > the packet into this skb buffer and later free it using dev_kfree_skb(). > > For various reasons (mainly to support legacy source code) I would like > to allocate and free the buffer using my own functions. Theoretically, I > could get away by using skb->destructor.
This won't work, since you cannot chain skb destructors...
Jeff
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