Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: network driver that uses skb destructor | From | Adrian Cox <> | Date | 30 Dec 2003 09:13:50 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 17:24, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> I wrote a patch to allow chaining of skb destructors, which was fairly > simple and would allow both the driver and the upper layers to set > their destructors. If there's any interet, I could probably resurrect > it.
It's interesting to me, for my work with PCI backplane networking, as it would eliminate an extra packet copy on receive.
(The current non-transparent PCI bridges have an IOMMU in one direction only. This means that one side of the bridge has to allocate its receive buffers out of a small area.)
- Adrian Cox http://www.humboldt.co.uk/
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