netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/11] bonding: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of kfree

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Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:42:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mpm@...enic.com, satyam.sharma@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] bonding: Call dev_kfree_skby_any instead of
 kfree_skb.

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:44:27 -0700

> On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 20:18 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> -			consume_skb(skb);
>> +			dev_consume_skb_any(skb);
> 
> Why is this needed ? AFAIK we run in softirq here.
> 
>>  			return ret;
>>  		}
>>  	}
>> @@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ static rx_handler_result_t bond_handle_frame(struct sk_buff **pskb)
>>  
>>  		if (unlikely(skb_cow_head(skb,
>>  					  skb->data - skb_mac_header(skb)))) {
>> -			kfree_skb(skb);
>> +			dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
> 
> same here.

These changes eminate from a recent discussion about netpoll, which can
call into the driver from hardware interrupts, particularly when netconsole
services a printk from hardware interrupt context.

bnx2x already makes similar ammends.

I hope that Eric B. here audited to make sure he's only doing this
transformation in situations that actually need this treatment for
the above mentioned issue.
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