Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265053AbUFGUsg (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:48:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265051AbUFGUsg (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:48:36 -0400 Received: from webmail.cs.unm.edu ([64.106.20.39]:3773 "EHLO mail.cs.unm.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265053AbUFGUsd (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:48:33 -0400 Message-ID: <40C4DE2A.1070008@cs.unm.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:29:14 -0600 From: Sushant Sharma User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030714 Debian/1.4-2 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: when is alloc_skb called Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanner: exiscan *1BXR2h-00014r-00*855g5qWQsV6* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 550 Lines: 17 Hi All I want to know which are the evnets that can lead to the calling of alloc_skb function which is used to allocate sk_buff. Arrival and departure of packet are 2 events which I know. Are there any other events/cases which can lead to alloc_skb(...) function call in kernel. Thanks for help Sushant - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/