From: Robert Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:54:13 +0100
> An new driver entry point? And can we increase skb->users to delay > skb destruction until the driver got the indication back? > So the driver will do the final kfree and not in the protocol layers > as now? This to avoid massive code changes. > > Thoughts? I think a new variant of netif_receive_skb() might be needed.... or maybe not. I don't see a need for a new ->poll() for example. On the other hand, nobody checks the return value from netif_receive_skb(). This would have been a nice avenue were it not for the SKB refcounting, but I think we could work around that by making the driver grab the extra reference count before it invokes netif_receive_skb(). I even think you are hinting at exactly this :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
