I have working on the tunnel networking driver. My requirement is to perform operation, which is opposite to the skb_put. following is the code i have written.
if (tunnel->skb == NULL) {
int len;
tunnel->skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, sizeof(struct myprotocol_hdr));
/*Place holder for the mhdp packet count*/
len = skb_headroom(tunnel->skb);
skb_push(tunnel->skb, len);
memset(tunnel->skb->data, 0, len);
tunnel->skb->tail -= len;
tunnel->skb->len -= len;
}
hdr_data = (struct data_info *) skb_put(tunnel->skb, sizeof(struct data_info));
Every time before calling the dev_queue_xmit i check whether the hardware is busy? if it is, then i call skb_put and add a structure at the end of header.
you can observe that, for the first time skb is allocated, skb->tail and skb->len are being decremented manually in order to avoid memory copy(as the
structure is added at the end of previous header). Is there any better function which can used instead.
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