netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 13/15] net: Add and use skb_list_del

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Date:   Sun, 9 Sep 2018 12:45:50 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 13/15] net: Add and use skb_list_del_init().

Hello!

On 9/8/2018 11:11 PM, David Miller wrote:

> It documents what is happening, and eliminates the spurious list
> pointer poisoning.
> 
> In the long term, in order to get proper list head debugging, we
> might want to use the list poinson value as the indicator that

    Poison?

> an SKB is a singleton and not on a list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

[...]

MBR, Sergei