Hello! > IS THERE A WAY TO ALLOW FREED MEMORY TO BE IMMEDIATELY (or > semi-immediately) AVAILABLE? It is fully-immediately available, but apparently, only after you free it. 8) Free it soon and you will get it back soon. Bridging works on bottom half, so that you have to reserve enough of memory to buffer bh latencies. Tune your memory allocator, default settings are inappropriate for this. Alexey - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org