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  • Jesper Dangaard Brouer's avatar
    net: bulk free SKBs that were delay free'ed due to IRQ context · 15fad714
    Jesper Dangaard Brouer authored Feb 08, 2016
    
    
    The network stack defers SKBs free, in-case free happens in IRQ or
    when IRQs are disabled. This happens in __dev_kfree_skb_irq() that
    writes SKBs that were free'ed during IRQ to the softirq completion
    queue (softnet_data.completion_queue).
    
    These SKBs are naturally delayed, and cleaned up during NET_TX_SOFTIRQ
    in function net_tx_action().  Take advantage of this a use the skb
    defer and flush API, as we are already in softirq context.
    
    For modern drivers this rarely happens. Although most drivers do call
    dev_kfree_skb_any(), which detects the situation and calls
    __dev_kfree_skb_irq() when needed.  This due to netpoll can call from
    IRQ context.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    15fad714
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