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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next] net: remove skb_sender_cpu_clear()
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:50:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D492E7.4060900@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456633194-2510-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

On 02/28/2016 05:19 AM, Cong Wang wrote:
> After commit 52bd2d62ce67 ("net: better skb->sender_cpu and skb->napi_id cohabitation")
> skb_sender_cpu_clear() becomes empty and can be removed.
>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Wasn't the intention to keep this helper as a marker when packet
crosses domains from RX to TX, see discussion here:

   https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/527167/

Maybe better to rename it and add a comment into the helper to
make the intention more clear?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-29 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-28  4:19 [Patch net-next] net: remove skb_sender_cpu_clear() Cong Wang
2016-02-29 18:50 ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2016-02-29 18:55   ` Cong Wang
2016-02-29 19:30     ` Eric Dumazet
2016-03-01 22:36 ` David Miller

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