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> If I understand it right, you want that the driver never passes one of its
> preallocated Rx buffers to the upper levels, so that the Rx ring is always

No. I want to do


	if(<copybreak)
	{
		skb=alloc_skb(RING_SIZE);
		if(skb==NULL)
			recycle original
	}
	else
	{
		alloc skb
		if(skb!=NULL)
			copy
	}