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[net-next 06/14] i40e: update comment explaining where FDIR buffers are freed

From: Jeff Kirsher <hidden>
Date: 2017-02-12 05:30:32
Subsystem: intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>

The original comment implies that the only location where the raw_packet
buffer will be freed is in i40e_clean_tx_ring() which is incorrect. In
fact this isn't even the normal case. Update the comment explaining
where the memory is freed.

Change-ID: Ie0defc35ed1c3af183f81fdc60b6d783707a5595
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
index 1202b4c7..09f09ea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c
@@ -432,7 +432,12 @@ int i40e_add_del_fdir(struct i40e_vsi *vsi,
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	/* The buffer allocated here is freed by the i40e_clean_tx_ring() */
+	/* The buffer allocated here will be normally be freed by
+	 * i40e_clean_fdir_tx_irq() as it reclaims resources after transmit
+	 * completion. In the event of an error adding the buffer to the FDIR
+	 * ring, it will immediately be freed. It may also be freed by
+	 * i40e_clean_tx_ring() when closing the VSI.
+	 */
 	return ret;
 }
 
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