netdev - Re: [PATCH] af_packet: add interframe drop cmsg (v5)

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Date:	Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:33:42 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_packet: add interframe drop cmsg (v5)

Neil Horman a écrit :
> ugh, so I really do need to do some sort of ring buffer implementation.  Ok,
> I'll rework this tomorrow.
> 

Are you sure you cannot reuse one field from struct sk_buff instead ?

I see many candidates, 32bits wide :)

This ring buffer stuff seems over-engineering to me, really.

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