Re: network driver that uses skb destructor

From: Adrian Cox (adrian_at_humboldt.co.uk)
Date: 12/30/03

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    To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Date:	30 Dec 2003 09:13:50 +0000

    On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 17:24, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:

    > I wrote a patch to allow chaining of skb destructors, which was fairly
    > simple and would allow both the driver and the upper layers to set
    > their destructors. If there's any interet, I could probably resurrect
    > it.

    It's interesting to me, for my work with PCI backplane networking, as it
    would eliminate an extra packet copy on receive.

    (The current non-transparent PCI bridges have an IOMMU in one direction
    only. This means that one side of the bridge has to allocate its receive
    buffers out of a small area.)

    - Adrian Cox
    http://www.humboldt.co.uk/

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