netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/3] r8169: Use dev_kfree

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Date:	Fri, 01 May 2015 14:06:35 +0200
From:	Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
	Dept-HSGLinuxNICDev@...gic.com, sony.chacko@...gic.com,
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] r8169: Use dev_kfree_skb in Tx cleanup path

On 01.05.2015 11:34, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com> :
>> This change replaces the use of either dev_kfree_skb_any or
>> dev_consume_skb_any in the Tx cleanup path of this driver with
>> dev_kfree_skb.  There isn't any need for the "_any" version of these
>> functions since the NAPI cleanup context is not a hard irq context.
> 
> netconsole ?
> 
> __dev_kfree_skb_any contains a big "if (... || irqs_disabled())" test
> and the NAPI poll handler is called with irq disabled from
> netpoll_send_skb_on_dev.
> 

Indeed. Also there have been changes from Eric Biederman not long ago,
which did just the opposite: replace dev_kfree() with dev_kfree_any()
for that reason. See

http://marc.info/?l=linux-stable-commits&m=142965098111361&w=2

[CCing Eric]

Regards,
Lino
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