Can anyone plz explain me the fields

[michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com]

Hi!

On 17:38 Thu 04 Apr     , Tarun Batra wrote:
> Can anyone plz explain me the fields
> 
> 
>  skb = kmem_cache_alloc(skbuff_head_cache, gfp_mask & ~_ _GFP_DMA);
>     ... ... ...
>     size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(size);

size of data buffer (the bytes you send over the wire not the overhead of
everything you need in ram to process the packets)

>     data = kmalloc(size + sizeof(struct skb_shared_info), gfp_mask);

data is the actual buffer (+skb_shared_info at the end of it)

	-Michi
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