Re: [patch net-next V7] net: introduce ethernet teaming device

[Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>]

Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 05:02:10PM CET, eric.dumazet@gmail.com wrote:
>Le jeudi 10 novembre 2011 à 16:41 +0100, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
>> This patch introduces new network device called team. It supposes to be
>> very fast, simple, userspace-driven alternative to existing bonding
>> driver.
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>> +static bool team_dummy_transmit(struct team *team, struct sk_buff *skb)
>> +{
>> +	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
>> +	return false;
>> +}
>> +
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>ndo_start_xmit() method can be called with IRQ disabled (netpoll ?), so
>dev_kfree_skb_any() is better ?
>

For example bonding is using dev_kfree_skb in xmit as well.
I propose this to be eventually addressed in follow-up patch.


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