From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Problem with dev_kfree_skb_any() in 2.6.0
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:42:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040101124218.258e8b73.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FF1B939.1090108@pobox.com>
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:43:21 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> Luckily, I feel there is an easy solution, as shown in the attached
> patch. We _already_ queue skbs in dev_kfree_skb_irq(). Therefore,
> dev_kfree_skb_any() can simply use precisely that same solution. The
> raise-softirq code will immediately proceed to action if we are not in
> hard IRQ context, otherwise it will follow the expected path.
Ok, this is reasonable and works.
Though, is there any particular reason you don't like adding a
"|| irqs_disabled()" check to the if statement instead?
I prefer that solution better actually.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-01 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-27 23:17 Problem with dev_kfree_skb_any() in 2.6.0 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-28 1:07 ` David S. Miller
2003-12-28 5:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-30 4:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-30 4:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-12-30 5:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-30 6:01 ` David S. Miller
2003-12-30 6:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-30 6:13 ` David S. Miller
2003-12-30 17:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-01 20:42 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-01-02 2:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-06 3:54 ` David S. Miller
2003-12-30 6:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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