On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:28:07AM -0800, Alex Aizman wrote:

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Andrea Arcangeli wrote: 

All I care about is to assign a mempool ID to the skb (ID 
being unique identifier for the tcp connection I don't care 
how the implementation is). 

It makes sense to provide an API for the NIC driver to allocate skb from the

That would pretty much need all of the infrastructure for zero copy 
RX - add all the hooks to update the device driver on local socket
hashtable updates. I am sure we will need it at some point and it makes
sense, but I suspect it is quite complex work.

-Andi