netdev - Re: [PATCH v14 06/17] Use callback to deal with skb_release

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Date:	Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:07:43 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	xiaohui.xin@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	davem@...emloft.net, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	jdike@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 06/17] Use callback to deal with skb_release_data()
 specially.

Le jeudi 04 novembre 2010 à 10:04 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :

> Hmm, I suggest you read the comment two lines above.
> 
> If destructor_arg is now cleared each time we allocate a new skb, then,
> please move it before dataref in shinfo structure, so that the following
> memset() does the job efficiently...


Something like :

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index e6ba898..2dca504 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ struct skb_shared_info {
 	__be32          ip6_frag_id;
 	__u8		tx_flags;
 	struct sk_buff	*frag_list;
+	/* Intermediate layers must ensure that destructor_arg
+	 * remains valid until skb destructor */
+	void		*destructor_arg;
 	struct skb_shared_hwtstamps hwtstamps;
 
 	/*
@@ -202,9 +205,6 @@ struct skb_shared_info {
 	 */
 	atomic_t	dataref;
 
-	/* Intermediate layers must ensure that destructor_arg
-	 * remains valid until skb destructor */
-	void *		destructor_arg;
 	/* must be last field, see pskb_expand_head() */
 	skb_frag_t	frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS];
 };



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