netdev - Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in ndo_start

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:19:09 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, robert.olsson@....uu.se
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Clone skb to avoid corruption of skbs in
 ndo_start_xmit methods

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:44:48PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mercredi 20 juillet 2011 à 11:39 -0400, Neil Horman a écrit :
> 
> > Isn't that exactly what this does?  Disallows a user from issuing the cone_skb
> > command in a pktgen script if the underlying driver can't support the sharing of
> > skbs.
> 
> My bad, I misread your patch. Seems fine to me ;)
> 
Ok, thanks.  I'll put this in a local tree and stat auditing drivers to see who
needs it set/cleared.  I'll post a new series when I have it done.

Thanks!
Neil

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