On Saturday 07 February 2004 12:46, Shine Mohamed wrote: > Dear Rogers, > > The maximum size of the skbuff depends on the underlying > protocol used. > > For example if the network device is an ethernet card > which using the protocol IEEE802.3 the maximum size > is 1536 KB (Pls check for the exact value) per packet. correction 1536 Bytes > > And if another standards such as IEEE802.11 it varies. > > Hope this shall help you... > > Regards, > Shine Mohamed > > On Monday 02 February 2004 02:03, RogersWilliamJ@aol.com wrote: > > I am writing a network device driver and would like to pre-allocate > > receiving sk_buff's to save time. In order to do this, I would like to > > allocate maximum sized sk_buff's. > > > > Does sk_buff have a maximum size? If so, what is it and is there a > > reference? > > > > Thank you. > > > > -- > > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
