Thread (288 messages) 288 messages, 13 authors, 2014-04-01

Re: [PATCH 45/54] spider_net: Call dev_consume_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2014-03-25 20:44:33

On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 23:05 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>

Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_consume_skb_any in
spider_net_release_tx_chain which can be called in hard irq and other
contexts.

dev_consume_skb_any was choosen as it preserves the current
dev_kfree_skb semantics (dev_kfree_skb is consume_skb) and
is because it is correct most of the time as most packets
will have been successfully transmitted not dropeed.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>
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Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
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