netdev - Re: [PATCH 03/54] 3c59x: Call dev_consume_skb_any instead of dev_kfree

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Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:04:19 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, mpm@...enic.com, satyam.sharma@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/54] 3c59x: Call dev_consume_skb_any instead of
 dev_kfree_skb.

On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 23:04 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> 
> Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_consume_skb_any in vortex_start_xmit
> as it can be called in hard irq and other contexts.
> 
> dev_consume_skb_any is used when vortext_start_xmit directly consumes
> the packet instead of dmaing it to the device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c
> index 238ccea965c8..61477b8e8d24 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c59x.c
> @@ -2086,7 +2086,7 @@ vortex_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  		/* ... and the packet rounded to a doubleword. */
>  		skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
>  		iowrite32_rep(ioaddr + TX_FIFO, skb->data, (skb->len + 3) >> 2);
> -		dev_kfree_skb (skb);
> +		dev_consume_skb_any (skb);
>  		if (ioread16(ioaddr + TxFree) > 1536) {
>  			netif_start_queue (dev);	/* AKPM: redundant? */
>  		} else {

remove the extra space ?

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>


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