On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Kais Belgaied <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>
Perhaps I just haven't thought about enough, but just off the top of my head, as there been any consideration for a framework for managing/reusing buffers specifically geared towards network drivers? _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
