NdisDprAllocatePacket

VOID
NdisDprAllocatePacket(
OUT PNDIS_STATUS Status,
OUT PNDIS_PACKET *Packet,
IN NDIS_HANDLE PoolHandle
);

NdisDprAllocatePacket allocates and initializes a packet descriptor when the caller is running at IRQL DISPATCH_LEVEL.

Parameters

Status

Points to a caller-supplied variable in which this function returns the final status of the request, which can be one of the following:

NDIS_STATUS_SUCCESS: The caller can use the packet descriptor returned at Packet.
NDIS_STATUS_RESOURCES: The free list for the packet pool currently has no available entries. A subsequent call to NdisDprFreePacket or NdisFreePacket will return the given entry to the free list. The variable at Packet is set to NULL.

Packet

Points to a caller-supplied variable in which this function returns a pointer to the allocated packet descriptor.

PoolHandle

Specifies the handle returned by a preceding call to NdisAllocatePacketPool.

Comments

NdisDprAllocatePacket runs slightly faster than NdisAllocatePacket because NDIS can acquire the spin lock it uses to synchronize access to the packet pool without having to raise IRQL.

A caller of NdisDprAllocatePacket must be running at IRQL DISPATCH_LEVEL. Otherwise, the driver should call NdisAllocatePacket.