netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] net_sched: always clone skbs

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Date:	Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:37:05 +0100
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	hadi@...erus.ca, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@...are.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] net_sched: always clone skbs

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:17:35PM +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:52 PM, jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Use to be we couldnt get the ifb+mirred combo to work
> > with TSO even without this change - i will have to dig old emails
> > to remember details. So we are making progress;-> I did write a set
> > of rules in: Documentation/networking/tc-actions-env-rules.txt
> > Changli optimized rule #1. When i looked at his patch it seems
> > to not harm that case. Sometimes dumb is a good principle ;->

Actually, when dumb isn't a good principle? ;->

Speaking about wrong things like optimizing this 1st commandment: it
seems, if we're stealing not shared skb it's not unreasonable to tell
others not to touch it anymore, and skip kfree_skb() in handle_ing(),
unless I miss something?


> In order to make my trick work. We need to assure dev_queue_xmit() and
> dev_hard_start_xmit() accept shared skbs. As Eric pointed, pktgen also
> need dev->netdev_ops->ndo_start_xmit() accept shared skbs. We need to
> fix every ndo_start_xmit() one by one, then dev_hard_start_xmit(), and
> when dev_queue_xmit() is also fixed, my trick can be added back.
> :)

I'm not sure pktgen is right - even if it's safe in its case, it seems
to break some older rules, and drivers should really own the things.
So it needs reviewing first.

Cheers,
Jarek P.
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