netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net_sched: make qdisc

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Date:   Sun, 17 Apr 2022 15:30:01 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net_sched: make qdisc_reset() smaller

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 6:11 PM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
> For some unknown reason qdisc_reset() is using
> a convoluted way of freeing two lists of skbs.
>
> Use __skb_queue_purge() instead.
[...]
>
> -       skb_queue_walk_safe(&qdisc->gso_skb, skb, tmp) {
> -               __skb_unlink(skb, &qdisc->gso_skb);
> -               kfree_skb_list(skb);

Isn't it precisely because of this kfree_skb_list()?

Thanks.