Add a dev_alloc_skb variant that takes a struct net_device * paramater.
For now that paramater is unused, but I'll use it to allocate the skb
from node-local memory in a follow-up patch. Also there have been some
other plans mentioned on the list that can use it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/skbuff.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/skbuff.h 2006-07-26 10:58:43.000000000
+0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/skbuff.h 2006-07-26 11:10:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -1104,6 +1104,28 @@
return __dev_alloc_skb(length, GFP_ATOMIC);
}
+extern struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
+ unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+
+/**
+ * netdev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx on a specific device
+ * @dev: network device to receive on
+ * @length: length to allocate
+ *
+ * Allocate a new &sk_buff and assign it a usage count of one. The
+ * buffer has unspecified headroom built in. Users should allocate
+ * the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
+ * built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
+ *
+ * %NULL is returned in there is no free memory. Although this function
+ * allocates memory it can be called from an interrupt.
+ */
+static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
+ unsigned int length)
+{
+ return __netdev_alloc_skb(dev, length, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
+
/**
* skb_cow - copy header of skb when it is required
* @skb: buffer to cow
Index: linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/net/core/skbuff.c 2006-07-26 10:58:43.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/net/core/skbuff.c 2006-07-26 11:10:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -256,6 +256,29 @@
goto out;
}
+/**
+ * __netdev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx on a specific device
+ * @dev: network device to receive on
+ * @length: length to allocate
+ * @gfp_mask: get_free_pages mask, passed to alloc_skb
+ *
+ * Allocate a new &sk_buff and assign it a usage count of one. The
+ * buffer has unspecified headroom built in. Users should allocate
+ * the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
+ * built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
+ *
+ * %NULL is returned in there is no free memory.
+ */
+struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
+ unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+
+ skb = alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask);
+ if (likely(skb))
+ skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
+ return skb;
+}
static void skb_drop_list(struct sk_buff **listp)
{
@@ -2042,6 +2065,7 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_skb);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pskb_pull_tail);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_skb);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_skb);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_copy);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_expand_head);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_checksum);
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