From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Wang Subject: [PATCH net-next V3] tun/macvtap: use consume_skb() instead of kfree_skb() when needed Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:36:06 +0800 Message-ID: <1417070166-7026-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: mst@redhat.com, Jason Wang , Eric Dumazet To: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org To be more friendly with drop monitor, we should only call kfree_skb() when the packets were dropped and use consume_skb() in other cases. Cc: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Jason Wang --- Changes from V2: - use unlikely() when necessary Changes from V1: - check the return value of tun/macvtap_put_user() --- drivers/net/macvtap.c | 5 ++++- drivers/net/tun.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/macvtap.c b/drivers/net/macvtap.c index 42a80d3..86f6bf8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c +++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c @@ -862,7 +862,10 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_do_read(struct macvtap_queue *q, } iov_iter_init(&iter, READ, iv, segs, len); ret = macvtap_put_user(q, skb, &iter); - kfree_skb(skb); + if (unlikely(ret < 0)) + kfree_skb(skb); + else + consume_skb(skb); break; } diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index ac53a73..82a9bf0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -1363,7 +1363,10 @@ static ssize_t tun_do_read(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile, iov_iter_init(&iter, READ, iv, segs, len); ret = tun_put_user(tun, tfile, skb, &iter); - kfree_skb(skb); + if (unlikely(ret < 0)) + kfree_skb(skb); + else + consume_skb(skb); return ret; } -- 1.9.1