Re: [PATCH 1/5] netpoll: use sk_buff_head for txq

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:51:30 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:03:50 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:02:53 -0700
> > 
> > > +	spin_lock_irqsave(&netpoll_txq.lock, flags);
> > > +	for (skb = (struct sk_buff *)netpoll_txq.next;
> > > +	     skb != (struct sk_buff *)&netpoll_txq; skb = next) {
> > > +		next = skb->next;
> > > +		if (skb->dev == dev) {
> > > +			skb_unlink(skb, &netpoll_txq);
> > > +			kfree_skb(skb);
> > > +		}
> > >  	}
> > > +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&netpoll_txq.lock, flags);
> > 
> > IRQ's are disabled, I think we can't call kfree_skb() in such a
> > context.
> 
> It is save since the skb's only come from this code (no destructors).
> 
Actually it does use destructors... I am doing a better version (per-device).
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