Hi Kiran, Rogers and list, On Saturday 07 February 2004 13:12, Kiran Kumar wrote: > --- Shine Mohamed <shinemohamed_j@naturesoft.net> > > wrote: > > The maximum size of the skbuff depends on the > > underlying > > protocol used. Here the problem is not the maximum size of skbuff.... but the max size for "pre-allocate receiving sk_buff's". I think its better to be the MTU of the underlying protocol. Eg:- 8139cp.c Please correct me if I am wrong. > > > > 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. > > > > And if another standards such as IEEE802.11 it > > varies. > > skbuff is a generic data structure used in the > networking code. It is not specific to > ethernet/whatever link layer protocol being used. For > eg., it can store all the fragments of an IP datagram. > skbuffs can definitely be larger (than this 1536 bytes > limit). > > > ===== > Regards, > Kiran Kumar Immidi Regards, Shine Mohamed > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > -- > 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/
