netdev - Re: [RFC] network driver skb allocations

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Message-Id: <20100503.130655.179288030.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 03 May 2010 13:06:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] network driver skb allocations

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 20:49:26 +0100

> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:06 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> [...]
>> Current logic for drivers is to :
>> 
>> allocate skbs (sk_buff + data) and put them in a ring buffer.
> 
> Not all of them.

In particular NIU always allocates SKBs at the time that it passes the
packet up to the stack.
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