From 8af2745645243b5e5b031504a643bf2158571dc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:35:23 -0700 Subject: [NET]: Add netdev_alloc_skb(). 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/skbuff.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h') diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index 4307e764ef0a..b91fbfb7d54c 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522