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Message-ID: <20141002143136.2234c9e6@urahara>
Date:	Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:31:36 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: macvlan: optimizing the receive path?

On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:28:13 -0400
Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering why the netif_rx(skb) call in macvlan_handle_frame()
> was necessary? IE:


It is to prevent too deep a call stack of
  netif_receive_skb
     macvlan_receive
        netif_receive_skb ...
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