netdev - can we reuse an skb

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Message-ID: <962874.62146.qm@web94813.mail.in2.yahoo.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:16:56 +0530 (IST)
From:	Radha Mohan <radhamohan_ch@...oo.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: can we reuse an skb

Hi,

For an ethernet driver, we need to allocate some pool of SKBs for receiving packets. Is there any way we can reuse the same SKBs without the need to re-allocate in atomic every time one has been used up for netif_rx(). 

Any pointers will be helpful.

-- Mohan

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