netdev - Re: atl1 warn_on

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Message-ID: <20081029140404.GC7256@ff.dom.local>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:04:04 +0000
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: atl1 warn_on_slowpath help

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:26:50PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
...
> I still don't follow - are you talking about the code with out
> without this patch? In the later case, why should we call it
> recursively without the need to do so?

I mean the current version (e.g. net-2.6). This comment reads that
netif_nit_deliver() is needed when we bypass netif_receive_skb().
But we call netif_receive_skb() from __vlan_hwaccel_rx(), and it's
not clear if some skbs are not tapped 2x.

Jarek P.
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