On Sun, 09 May 2004 Micha Feigin wrote : >On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 08:59:39AM -0000, bunty wrote: > > hi, > > i want to increase skbuff size can it be possible? there is > > skb = alloc_skb(size, GFP_KERNEL); > > statement in kernel source. i want to change size variable by increasing its > > value. > > i have not yet tried it. cause i want suggestions fron kernelnewbies if > > any body has done it already. > > > >I have done it before and it works. > >The main thing to check, at least on the platform I worked with the >allocation came from the slabs and thus was limited to a power of 2, so >if you pass the 2048 Byte you got 4096. I don't remember if that is >also the case on i386 (or whatever platform you are working on) so you >should check that (although if you are not doing embedded it shouldn't >be much of a issue). > > > regards, > > parag > > > > > > > > _[_h_t_t_p_:_/_/_a_d_s_._r_e_d_i_f_f_._c_o_m_/_R_e_a_l_M_e_d_i_a_/_a_d_s_/_a_d_s_t_r_e_a_m___n_x_._c_g_i_/_w_w_w_._r_e_d_i_f_f_m_a_i_l_._c_o_m_/ > > _i_n_b_o_x_._h_t_m_@_B_o_t_t_o_m_] > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > >-- >Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. >Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ >FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ >
