netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] skb: make drop reason booleanable

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Date:   Fri, 4 Mar 2022 08:31:00 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] skb: make drop reason booleanable

On 3/3/22 11:37 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 9:22 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu,  3 Mar 2022 20:53:53 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>> -     return false;
>>> +     return __SKB_OKAY;
>>
>> s/__//
>>
>> I'll send a v2 if I get acks / positive feedback.
> 
> 
> I am not a big fan of SKB_OKAY ?
> 
> Maybe SKB_NOT_DROPPED_YET, or SKB_VALID_SO_FAR.
> 
> Oh well, I am not good at names.

SKB_DROP_EXPECTED or SKB_DROP_NORMAL? That said I thought consume_skb is
for normal, release path and then kfree_skb is when an skb is dropped
for unexpected reasons.