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NAME, SYNOPSIS, ARGUMENTS, DESCRIPTION, COPYRIGHT

"__DEV_ALLOC_SKB" "9" "July 2007" "Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6.22" "Linux Networking"

NAME

__dev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for receiving

SYNOPSIS

"struct sk_buff * __dev_alloc_skb(unsigned int " "length" ", gfp_t " "gfp_mask" ");"


ARGUMENTS

length

length to allocate

gfp_mask

get_free_pages mask, passed to alloc_skb

DESCRIPTION

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.

NULLfR
is returned if there is no free memory.

COPYRIGHT

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