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[NET]: Add netdev_alloc_skb().
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Add a dev_alloc_skb variant that takes a struct net_device * paramater.
For now that paramater is unused, but I'll use it to allocate the skb
from node-local memory in a follow-up patch.  Also there have been some
other plans mentioned on the list that can use it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Christoph Hellwig authored and David S. Miller committed Aug 2, 2006
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22 changes: 22 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/skbuff.h
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Expand Up @@ -1104,6 +1104,28 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int length)
return __dev_alloc_skb(length, GFP_ATOMIC);
}

extern struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask);

/**
* netdev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx on a specific device
* @dev: network device to receive on
* @length: length to allocate
*
* Allocate a new &sk_buff and assign it a usage count of one. The
* buffer has unspecified headroom built in. Users should allocate
* the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
* built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
*
* %NULL is returned if there is no free memory. Although this function
* allocates memory it can be called from an interrupt.
*/
static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int length)
{
return __netdev_alloc_skb(dev, length, GFP_ATOMIC);
}

/**
* skb_cow - copy header of skb when it is required
* @skb: buffer to cow
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24 changes: 24 additions & 0 deletions net/core/skbuff.c
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Expand Up @@ -256,6 +256,29 @@ struct sk_buff *alloc_skb_from_cache(kmem_cache_t *cp,
goto out;
}

/**
* __netdev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx on a specific device
* @dev: network device to receive on
* @length: length to allocate
* @gfp_mask: get_free_pages mask, passed to alloc_skb
*
* Allocate a new &sk_buff and assign it a usage count of one. The
* buffer has unspecified headroom built in. Users should allocate
* the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
* built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
*
* %NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
*/
struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;

skb = alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask);
if (likely(skb))
skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
return skb;
}

static void skb_drop_list(struct sk_buff **listp)
{
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_skb);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pskb_pull_tail);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_skb);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_skb);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_copy);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_expand_head);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_checksum);
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