linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dlink: count dropped packets on skb allocation failure

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Message-Id: <DCQPQTBY5SVC.1FKEWQBMY4WZS@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:27:19 +0900
From: "Yeounsu Moon" <yyyynoom@...il.com>
To: "Simon Horman" <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: "Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, "Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>, "Jakub
 Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>, "Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dlink: count dropped packets on skb
 allocation failure

On Fri Sep 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM KST, Simon Horman wrote:
> Although new users of dev->stats are discoraged (see ndetdevice.h).
> That is not the case here, as the driver already uses dev-stats.
> So I believe this is change is good.

Thank you for pointing that out! I also plan to rework statistics code
to rtnl-based statistics. However, that change affects a large amount
of code, so I'd like to introduce it gradually and gracefully.

>
>>  				printk (KERN_INFO
>>  					"%s: receive_packet: "
>>  					"Unable to re-allocate Rx skbuff.#%d\n",
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>

Thank you again for reviewing my patch, Simon :)

	Yeounsu Moon