netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] bonding: don't increase rx

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Date:	Fri, 04 May 2012 15:04:56 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, fubar@...ibm.com,
	andy@...yhouse.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bonding: don't increase rx_dropped after processing
 LACPDUs

On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 14:19 +0200, Jiri Bohac wrote:
> Since commit 3aba891d, bonding processes LACP frames (802.3ad
> mode) with bond_handle_frame(). Currently a copy of the skb is
> made and the original is left to be processed by other
> rx_handlers and the rest of the network stack by returning
> RX_HANDLER_ANOTHER.  As there is no protocol handler for
> PKT_TYPE_LACPDU, the frame is dropped and dev->rx_dropped
> increased.
> 
> Fix this by making bond_handle_frame() return RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED
> if bonding has processed the LACP frame.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@...e.cz>
> 


>  		if (likely(nskb)) {
> -			recv_probe(nskb, bond, slave);
> +			ret = recv_probe(nskb, bond, slave);
>  			dev_kfree_skb(nskb);
> +			if (ret == RX_HANDLER_CONSUMED) {
> +				kfree_skb(skb);

consume_skb(skb) to not fool drop_monitor/dropwatch ?

> +				return ret;
> +			}
>  		}
>  	}



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