netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: bridge: add skb drop reasons to the most common drop points

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Message-ID: <Z2fKlF_IFfcNZq6P@shredder>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 10:15:16 +0200
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To: Radu Rendec <rrendec@...hat.com>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...dia.com>, bridge@...ts.linux.dev,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] net: bridge: add skb drop reasons to the
 most common drop points

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 11:36:06AM -0500, Radu Rendec wrote:
> The bridge input code may drop frames for various reasons and at various
> points in the ingress handling logic. Currently kfree_skb() is used
> everywhere, and therefore no drop reason is specified. Add drop reasons
> to the most common drop points.
> 
> Drop reasons are not added exhaustively to the entire bridge code. The
> intention is to incrementally add drop reasons to the rest of the bridge
> code in follow up patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Radu Rendec <rrendec@...hat.com>

Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>