[Click] kernel could not allocate memory for skbuff

[Shilpi Agarwal]

hi!!

I am running out of memory and getting error message "kernel could not allocate
memory for skbuff"

This error is coming from function call in polldevice run task..
struct sk_buff *new_skbs = skbmgr_allocate_skbs(0, 1536+16, &nskbs);

I am not able to understand what does this allocating skbuff mean (this is
oocuring only when poll device did not return any packets)...and how are the
packets being stored in memory untill they are transmitted ??

Can anyone please help me....

Thanks
Shilpi

Shilpi Agarwal
Graduate Student
Dept of Electrical Engineering
University of Wisconsin 
Madison-53706
phone:608-233-3714