[NET]: Add netdev_alloc_skb().
Add a dev_alloc_skb variant that takes a struct net_device * paramater.
For now that paramater is unused, but I'll use it to allocate the skb
from node-local memory in a follow-up patch. Also there have been some
other plans mentioned on the list that can use it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index d236f02..71487b9 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -256,6 +256,29 @@
goto out;
}
+/**
+ * __netdev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx on a specific device
+ * @dev: network device to receive on
+ * @length: length to allocate
+ * @gfp_mask: get_free_pages mask, passed to alloc_skb
+ *
+ * Allocate a new &sk_buff and assign it a usage count of one. The
+ * buffer has unspecified headroom built in. Users should allocate
+ * the headroom they think they need without accounting for the
+ * built in space. The built in space is used for optimisations.
+ *
+ * %NULL is returned if there is no free memory.
+ */
+struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
+ unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+
+ skb = alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask);
+ if (likely(skb))
+ skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
+ return skb;
+}
static void skb_drop_list(struct sk_buff **listp)
{
@@ -2048,6 +2071,7 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_skb);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pskb_pull_tail);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_skb);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netdev_alloc_skb);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_copy);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pskb_expand_head);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_checksum);