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SubjectRe: network driver that uses skb destructor
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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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