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From: John Daiker <jdaiker@osdl.org>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Kernel Janitor TODO: dev_kfree_skb
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:35:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <449C2679.6020501@osdl.org> (raw)

I was running through the kernel janitors TODO list 
(http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/TODO) and thought I'd try to find 
something easy for my first attempt at kernel hacking/maintenance.

The "Balancing Function" header suggests that all net_device interrupt 
functions should use dev_kfree_skb_irq as opposed to dev_kfree_skb.
Should we ever be calling dev_kfree_skb directly, or would the better 
practice be to always call dev_kfree_skb_any (thus letting the kernel 
decide to call dev_kfree_skb or dev_kfree_skb_irq)?

dev_kfree_skb_any is defined in 'net/core/dev.c:1118'

John Daiker

             reply	other threads:[~2006-06-23 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-23 17:35 John Daiker [this message]
2006-06-23 23:47 ` Kernel Janitor TODO: dev_kfree_skb Herbert Xu

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