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NdisPacketPoolUsage function

Note   NDIS 5. x has been deprecated and is superseded by NDIS 6. x. For new NDIS driver development, see Network Drivers Starting with Windows Vista. For information about porting NDIS 5. x drivers to NDIS 6. x, see Porting NDIS 5.x Drivers to NDIS 6.0.

NdisPacketPoolUsage returns the number of packet descriptors currently allocated from a packet pool.

Syntax

UINT NdisPacketPoolUsage(
  _In_ NDIS_HANDLE PoolHandle
);

Parameters

Return value

NdisPacketPoolUsage returns the number of packet descriptors currently allocated from the given packet pool.

Remarks

Before allocating packet descriptors for a send or receive indication, an NDIS driver can call NdisPacketPoolUsage to determine whether it has enough spare packet descriptors available for the send or receive operation, particularly if the driver has allocated more than one packet pool.

An NDIS driver also can call this function to be sure that all descriptors have been returned to the given packet pool before it calls NdisFreePacketPool.

Requirements

Target platform

Universal

Version

Not supported for NDIS 6.0 drivers in Windows Vista. Supported for NDIS 5.1 drivers in Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Header

Ndis.h (include Ndis.h)

Library

Ndis.lib

IRQL

<= DISPATCH_LEVEL

See also

NdisAllocatePacket

NdisAllocatePacketPoolEx

NdisDprAllocatePacket

NdisDprAllocatePacketNonInterlocked

NdisFreePacketPool

NDIS_PACKET

 

 

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