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Re: [rtl] Real time ethernet.



On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Michael M. Morrison wrote:

> dev_alloc_skb( length ): allocate an skb of the given size
> dev_kfree_skb( skb ): free the skb

>     skb = dev_alloc_skb( length );

Have you modified those functions or are you using the standard ones from the
kernel? I have read many times that those routines should not be
called from within real time - they expect interrupts to be blocked at
certain points.

But anyway, this is a nice work. 

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