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author | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2007-04-17 12:28:27 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-04-17 13:13:16 -0700 |
commit | b4dfa0b1fb39c7ffe74741d60668825de6a47b69 (patch) | |
tree | 1866a6b51f666b4969f6c0be55c25f31e4d42a51 /net/core | |
parent | 6f29e35e2d4cdbc3e8785982314e54ec5df4ad37 (diff) | |
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[NET]: Get rid of alloc_skb_from_cache
Since this was added originally for Xen, and Xen has recently (~2.6.18)
stopped using this function, we can safely get rid of it. Good timing
too since this function has started to bit rot.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r-- | net/core/skbuff.c | 55 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 87573ae35b02..336958fbbcb2 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -197,61 +197,6 @@ nodata: } /** - * alloc_skb_from_cache - allocate a network buffer - * @cp: kmem_cache from which to allocate the data area - * (object size must be big enough for @size bytes + skb overheads) - * @size: size to allocate - * @gfp_mask: allocation mask - * - * Allocate a new &sk_buff. The returned buffer has no headroom and - * tail room of size bytes. The object has a reference count of one. - * The return is the buffer. On a failure the return is %NULL. - * - * Buffers may only be allocated from interrupts using a @gfp_mask of - * %GFP_ATOMIC. - */ -struct sk_buff *alloc_skb_from_cache(struct kmem_cache *cp, - unsigned int size, - gfp_t gfp_mask) -{ - struct sk_buff *skb; - u8 *data; - - /* Get the HEAD */ - skb = kmem_cache_alloc(skbuff_head_cache, - gfp_mask & ~__GFP_DMA); - if (!skb) - goto out; - - /* Get the DATA. */ - size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(size); - data = kmem_cache_alloc(cp, gfp_mask); - if (!data) - goto nodata; - - memset(skb, 0, offsetof(struct sk_buff, truesize)); - skb->truesize = size + sizeof(struct sk_buff); - atomic_set(&skb->users, 1); - skb->head = data; - skb->data = data; - skb->tail = data; - skb->end = data + size; - - atomic_set(&(skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref), 1); - skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags = 0; - skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size = 0; - skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs = 0; - skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type = 0; - skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = NULL; -out: - return skb; -nodata: - kmem_cache_free(skbuff_head_cache, skb); - skb = NULL; - goto out; -} - -/** * __netdev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx on a specific device * @dev: network device to receive on * @length: length to allocate |