Re: [PATCH V4 net-next] tun/macvtap: use consume_skb() instead of kfree_skb() when needed

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Dec 01 2014 - 04:30:30 EST


On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:53:15PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> 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 <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Changes from V3:
> - rebase to net-next.git
> 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 22b4cf2..ba1e5db 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/macvtap.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/macvtap.c
> @@ -859,7 +859,10 @@ static ssize_t macvtap_do_read(struct macvtap_queue *q,
> }
> if (skb) {
> ret = macvtap_put_user(q, skb, to);
> - kfree_skb(skb);
> + if (unlikely(ret < 0))
> + kfree_skb(skb);
> + else
> + consume_skb(skb);
> }
> if (!noblock)
> finish_wait(sk_sleep(&q->sk), &wait);
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
> index 6d44da1..9c58286 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tun.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
> @@ -1362,7 +1362,10 @@ static ssize_t tun_do_read(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
> return 0;
>
> ret = tun_put_user(tun, tfile, skb, to);
> - kfree_skb(skb);
> + if (unlikely(ret < 0))
> + kfree_skb(skb);
> + else
> + consume_skb(skb);
>
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 1.9.1
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