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    SubjectRe: [PATCH/RESEND] drivers/net/ethernet: dev_alloc_skb to netdev_alloc_skb
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    Le mardi 24 janvier 2012 à 02:11 +0530, Pradeep A. Dalvi a écrit :

    > Aah! Is that really needed? Cause from my understanding, priority GFP
    > flag __GFP_DMA is anyway negated in __alloc_skb, in a way from all
    > sources i.e. netdev_alloc_skb or dev_alloc_skb or even alloc_skb. Am I
    > missing something here?

    You should read the whole __alloc_skb() function and not only half of
    it.

    skb itself is allocated in the normal memory pool, (not GFP_DMA), since
    it has no hardware requirement for a kernel structure.

    But skb->head _is_ allocated with GFP_DMA if driver requested it.



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