--- Michael Hines <mhines@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm writing some code that intercepts and stores
> socket buffers....lots of
> them - and keeps them in memory for storage. (for
> various reasons)
> What I do is: when sk_buffs come in (the ones I
> want), I isolate them,
> unlink them, and orphan them and put them on a
> linked list of my own.
>
> Is there another mechanism to know for sure that an
> sk_buff has been
> transmitted?
>
As you said you are saving the sk_buff on your own
linked list, why dont you maintain the list of
expanded element rather than sk_buff. Each extended
element can have one element which will be a pointer
to the actual sk_buff and another element of extended
element can be a flag which can till you if the
sk_buff data has been transmitted ot not. So each
element of you linked list can be of following type:
struct ext_buffer{
sk_buff * net_data;
int flag;
struct ext_buffer *next_node;
}
once you transmit the net_data, do set the flag, so
that you can come to know next time that this data has
already been dispatched.
I hope i understood your prob properly.
cheers!!
--gd
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