Thank you for the pointer. I know something about the basic part, what remains mysterious to me is the non-linear things, sk_shared_info(what's the relationship between frag_list and frags), can someone briefly describe it? Ronghua On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Angelo Dell'Aera wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:06:51 -0500 (EST) > Ronghua Zhang <rz5b@cs.virginia.edu> wrote: > > >But all the document I can found is about skbuffs in 2.2.xx. There > >are some new things added to skbuffs since 2.4. Anybody knows about > >them ? > > Try to look at http://www.linux.org.uk/Documents . You'll find a good > article written by Alan Cox on sk_buffs. I have to say you it doesn't > talk about non-linear skb_buffs which were introduced by Alan in his > kernel 2.4.2-ac9. Now non-linear sk_buffs are in vanilla kernels 2.4. > > Regards, > > Angelo Dell'Aera 'buffer' > <buffer@users.sourceforge.net> > > PGP information in e-mail header > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE93gpnpONIzxnBXKIRArJBAJ0fDOD/zvMGj4sSL54tYF3pNazA+wCfWzJW > f8+R8HnMiO3fooTmw0ZXbfU= > =wsDf > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/