Re: sk_buff structure

[rahul b jain cs student <rbj2@oak.njit.edu>]

Thanks for the pointer. It was very helpful. Need to clarify a few more
questions though.

1. Does this mean that all the headers reside in skb->data - skb->head or
just the ethernet header ?
2. Or is it that the TCP and IP headers are considered part of data in
sk_buff and are stored in the skb->tail - skb->data section ?

I ask the second questions because I saw

skb->h.raw = skb->nh.raw = skb->data;

in netif_receive_skb() (/net/core/dev.c) function. With this statement it
would mean that there is no line of seperation between the two layers. Or
am I missing something here ?

Thanks,
Rahul.

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> > In this structure there are pointers called headroom, data, tailroom and
> > end. Does anyone know what these are used for. Or can anyone point me to a
> > good explanation for these fields.
>
> There is a basic discussion in chapter 14 of Linux Device Drivers which
> you can read online at http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html.
>
> jon
>
> Jonathan Corbet
> Executive editor, LWN.net
> corbet@lwn.net
>