netdev - Re: Gentle Guide to the Network Stack

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:01:07 +0300
From:	"Ian Brown" <ianbrn@...il.com>
To:	"Olaf Kirch" <okir@....de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Gentle Guide to the Network Stack

Hi,
- This Linux network stack paper is a good and blessed initiative, and
may be certailnly
helpful to developers.

  I hope to see more of it in th future !

question:
What do you mean by :
"current kernels allocate these in as single entity named struct sockalloc,"
chapter 6 (page 19).

I grepped for:
struct sockalloc and  struct sock_alloc under the kernel tree (git 2.6
netdev tree)
and could not find such a thing.

Regards,
Ian




On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Olaf Kirch <okir@....de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I started putting together a paper on the Linux network stack,
> focusing on how things fit together, and help relative beginners
> understand the machinery, rather than giving a full-blown highly
> detailed cross reference (which would be outdated more quickly
> than you can re-run latex anyway :-)
> I intend to release it under the GPL or GNU FDL or similar license -
> I haven't fully made up my mind yet on what works best.
>
> You can find the first couple of pages at
> http://oss.oracle.com/~okir/network/paper.pdf
>
> I'd be very interested in general feedback on the approach taken,
> the level of detail and such. In case I missed the fact that
> someone else is currently doing the same, please let me know, too.
>
> Cheers,
> Olaf
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