linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] e1000e: Be drop monitor friendly

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Message-Id: <20170824.212959.70798260439682691.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 21:29:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...il.com,
        jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] e1000e: Be drop monitor friendly

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 20:58:24 -0700

> e1000_put_txbuf() cleans up the successfully transmitted TX packets,
> e1000e_tx_hwtstamp_work() also does the successfully completes the
> timestamped TX packets, e1000_clean_rx_ring() cleans up the RX ring and
> e1000_remove() cleans up the timestampted packets. None of these
> functions should be reporting dropped packets, so make them use
> dev_consume_skb_any() to be drop monitor friendly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

I'll let the Intel folks pick this up.