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Question: skb queues

Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 01:19:19 GMT
From: Rahul Singh <>

I was trying out some stuff that deals with creating Q of the sk_buffs as they are passed from routines in ip_output.c to dev_queue_xmit() in /net/core/dev.c . Using sk_buff_head to do the Q-ing and timer_list to control the rate at which skbs are passed from my routine to dev_queue_xmit().

The code is able to control the rate at which skbs are passed to dev_queue_xmit() but seems to have a few bugs.

The error msgs that I encountered are "killing of interrupt handlers" and "kfree-ing of memory allocated not using kalloc" (when I try to have an upper bound on the Q size).

It would be great if someone could give me a clue about the possible bugs.

Thanks.