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NAME, SYNOPSIS, ARGUMENTS, DESCRIPTION, COPYRIGHT

"__NETDEV_ALLOC_SKB" "9" "July 2007" "Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6.22" "Linux Networking"

NAME

__netdev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx on a specific device

SYNOPSIS

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


ARGUMENTS

dev

network device to receive on

length

length to allocate gfp_mask get_free_pages mask, passed to alloc_skb

DESCRIPTION

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.

NULLfR
is returned if there is no free memory.

COPYRIGHT

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