Pradeep, the buffers could also be tied up in the socket layer, waiting for an application to either complete reading or close the socket and free all messages thus releasing all buffers.
I'm forwarding this question to the wider networking discuss for possible other comments. Kais,. On 09/15/09 07:56, Pradeep wrote: > Hi , > Iam developing a gldv3 network driver , i often face problems > while detaching my module . When heavy traffic is running on that > interface and if i try to remove the module i end up some buffers not > being returned from the stack . I am failing detach during this buffer held > condition . But is there any way to push the stack to return the completions > > In between i use desballoc for the receive buffers allocation > > Thanks in Advance > Pradeep G >
