Re: Extra 15 bytes

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:55:49 -0700


Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 02:44:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: pramodh mallipatna <pramodh@ittc.ukans.edu>

What is the significance of 15 bytes in allocating the skbuff for
the arp packet? Since the the size of arp header and hard header
are already taken into account, why do we need the 15 bytes? What
is it used for?

Potential alignment done by later users of the SKB...

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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