netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/3] net-timestamp: Make the clone operation stand-alone from phy timestamping

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Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:30:31 -0700
From:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	richardcochran@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/3] net-timestamp: Make the clone operation
 stand-alone from phy timestamping

On 09/04/2014 10:48 AM, Rick Jones wrote:
> On 09/04/2014 10:31 AM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> v2: Renamed function to skb_clone_sk.
>>      Added destructor to call sock_put instead of doing it ourselves.
>>      Dropped freeing functionality from skb_complete_tx_timestamp.
>>      Added additional documentation to the code.
>>
>> v3: Renamed destructor sock_efree and moved to sock.c/h
>>      Added sock_hold/sock_put around call to sock_queue_err_skb
>>
>> v4: Dropped combining sock_edemux with sock_efree where the 2 are
>> identical
>>
>>   drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c |    6 +++---
>>   include/linux/skbuff.h    |    2 ++
>>   include/net/sock.h        |    1 +
>>   net/core/skbuff.c         |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>   net/core/sock.c           |    6 ++++++
>>   net/core/timestamping.c   |   14 +++-----------
>>   6 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c b/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c
>> index d5991ac..87648b3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/dp83640.c
>> @@ -1148,7 +1148,7 @@ static void dp83640_remove(struct phy_device
>> *phydev)
>>           kfree_skb(skb);
>>
>>       while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&dp83640->tx_queue)) != NULL)
>> -        skb_complete_tx_timestamp(skb, NULL);
>> +        kfree_skb(skb);
>
> I may not be following the flow correctly, and may be noticing only
> because I just did two "floor-sweeping" patches to shift be2net and
> mlx4_en to "consume" but would it be better if these kfree_skb calls
> were a "consume" variety?
>
> rick jones

kfree_skb is probably the correct approach.  In this case it represents
a buffer that has to be freed due to a Tx timestamp request timeout so
it would be an event that we would want to trace as an error event.

Thanks,

Alex
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