From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:39:52 -0800
> Rick Jones wrote: > > In the realm of straw ideas, how often are netdevs added and removed, > > and would leaving a tombstone behind consume too much memory? > > In certain cases...say, with vlans, you could very often create and > destroy net devices. I think that giving up and leaking the memory > is not a good idea. I think he's suggesting another thing. Reattach the skb->dev to some dummy device that always persists, when a device goes down. The only problem is finding all SKB's that reference the dev going down. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
