netdev - Re: [RFC] gre: conform to RFC6040 ECN progogation

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Date:	Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:56:06 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] gre: conform to RFC6040 ECN progogation

On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:55:19 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 14:44 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> [...]
> > --- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c	2012-09-21 08:45:55.948772761 -0700
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c	2012-09-24 14:35:54.666185603 -0700
> [...]
> > @@ -703,17 +704,18 @@ static int ipgre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb
> >  			skb_postpull_rcsum(skb, eth_hdr(skb), ETH_HLEN);
> >  		}
> >  
> > +		__skb_tunnel_rx(skb, tunnel->dev);
> > +
> > +		skb_reset_network_header(skb);
> > +		if (!ipgre_ecn_decapsulate(iph, skb))
> > +			goto drop;
> > +
> >  		tstats = this_cpu_ptr(tunnel->dev->tstats);
> >  		u64_stats_update_begin(&tstats->syncp);
> >  		tstats->rx_packets++;
> >  		tstats->rx_bytes += skb->len;
> >  		u64_stats_update_end(&tstats->syncp);
> 
> I don't know why you're moving this code above the stats update;
> rx_packets/rx_bytes should include dropped packets.
> 
> Ben.
> 
> > -		__skb_tunnel_rx(skb, tunnel->dev);
> > -
> > -		skb_reset_network_header(skb);
> > -		ipgre_ecn_decapsulate(iph, skb);
> > -
> >  		netif_rx(skb);
> >  
> >  		rcu_read_unlock();
> 

Is that true? I thought they were accounted for by rx_dropped.
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