From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
leit@meta.com, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
"open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: skbuff: Skip early return in skb_unref when debugging
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:50:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240730105012.GA1809@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6b1f967-aaf4-47f4-be33-c981a7abc120@redhat.com>
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> wrote:
> > else if (likely(!refcount_dec_and_test(&skb->users)))
> > return false;
>
> I think one assumption behind CONFIG_DEBUG_NET is that enabling such config
> should not have any measurable impact on performances.
If thats the case why does it exist at all?
I was under impression that entire reason for CONFIG_DEBUG_NET was
to enable more checks for fuzzers and the like, i.e. NOT for production
kernels.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-30 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-29 10:47 [PATCH net-next] net: skbuff: Skip early return in skb_unref when debugging Breno Leitao
2024-07-30 9:38 ` Paolo Abeni
2024-07-30 10:24 ` Breno Leitao
2024-07-30 10:50 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2024-07-30 11:15 ` Paolo Abeni
2024-07-30 14:10 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-07-30 14:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2024-07-30 14:37 ` Paolo Abeni
2024-07-30 14:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-07-31 11:24 ` Breno Leitao
2024-07-31 11:53 ` Jason Xing
2024-08-01 9:07 ` Paolo Abeni
2024-08-01 9:30 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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