netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: add destructor for skb data.

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Date:	Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:06:48 +0400
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: add destructor for skb data.

Hi.

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:56:05PM +1000, Rusty Russell (rusty@...tcorp.com.au) wrote:
> If we want to notify something when an skb is truly finished (such as
> for tun vringfd support), we need a destructor on the data.  We don't
> need to add other fields, since we can just allocate extra room at the
> end.

There is skb->destructor already, for your case of vringfd it can be
used safely afaics.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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