sk_buff structure

[Jason Dixon]

On Jun 22, 2004, at 4:25 PM, rahul b jain cs student wrote:

> I am trying to modify the kernel networking code and have a question
> regarding the sk_buff structure which is used to store the details of a
> packet.
> 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.
>
> I wanted to know how exactly they are populated ? Whether the headroom
> contains the different headers ? What does the tailroom contain ?

Granted, there might be kernel developers on this list, but wouldn't 
this question be more appropriate for the Linux kernel mailing list(s)?

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