netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 1/2] net: sched: refactor reinsert action

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Date:   Mon, 17 Jun 2019 23:11:45 +0100
From:   John Hurley <john.hurley@...ronome.com>
To:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Cc:     Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 1/2] net: sched: refactor reinsert action

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 7:44 PM Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com> wrote:
>
> On 14/06/2019 15:33, John Hurley wrote:
> > Instead of
> > returning TC_ACT_REINSERT, change the type to the new TC_ACT_CONSUMED
> > which tells the caller that the packet has been stolen by another process
> > and that no consume call is required.
> Possibly a dumb question, but why does this need a new CONSUMED rather
>  than, say, taking an additional ref and returning TC_ACT_STOLEN?
>
> Apart from that, the series lgtm.
>

Thanks for comments, Ed.
The CONSUMED was to replace the REINSERT function but yes, this is
probably not required now.
I can respin

> -Ed