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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2006-07-31 22:35:23 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-08-02 13:38:25 -0700 |
| commit | 8af2745645243b5e5b031504a643bf2158571dc7 (patch) | |
| tree | 32bf05d47473c2b586daee33f343e0eea1bbf943 /net | |
| parent | 52499afe40387524e9f46ef9ce4695efccdd2ed9 (diff) | |
[NET]: Add netdev_alloc_skb().
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 <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/skbuff.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index d236f02c6467..71487b915d67 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -256,6 +256,29 @@ nodata: 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 if 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) { @@ -2048,6 +2071,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfree_skb); 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); |