netdev - [patch] ifb double-counts packets

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Date:	Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:35:50 -0800 (PST)
From:	dean gaudet <dean@...tic.org>
To:	Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...x.com>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] ifb double-counts packets

it seems that ifb counts packets twice... both at xmit time and also in 
the tasklet.  i'm not sure which one of the two to drop, but here's a 
patch for dropping the counting at xmit time.

patch against 2.6.20-rc1.

-dean

Signed-off-by: dean gaudet <dean@...tic.org>

Index: linux/drivers/net/ifb.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/net/ifb.c	2006-11-29 13:57:37.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/drivers/net/ifb.c	2006-12-23 02:14:31.000000000 -0800
@@ -154,9 +154,6 @@
 	int ret = 0;
 	u32 from = G_TC_FROM(skb->tc_verd);
 
-	stats->tx_packets++;
-	stats->tx_bytes+=skb->len;
-
 	if (!from || !skb->input_dev) {
 dropped:
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
-
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