Re: bug in 2.1.89 include/net/sock.h?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:57:20 +0000 (GMT)


> The main thing I'd like to ensure is that the skb is not owned following an
> error return from the socket queueing code, so that it can be tried again for
> the next socket. Since it's a fair amount of work to allocate and copy an skb,
> it would improve multicasting performance to pass the socket along rather than
> freeing it after a queueing failure.

But its valid to change the owner of an existing sk_buff anyway

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