Re: [PATCH 15/54] cxgb3: Call dev_kfree/consume_skb_any instead of [dev_]kfree_skb.

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On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 23:05 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Replace kfree_skb with dev_consume_skb_any in free_tx_desc, and
> write_tx_pkt_wr that can be called in hard irq and other contexts.
> 
> Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_kfree_skb_any in t3_eth_xmit that can
> be called in hard irq and other contexts.
> 
> dev_kfree_skb is replaced with dev_kfree_skb_any in t3_eth_xmit as
> that location is a packet drop, while kfree_skb in free_tx_desc,
> and in write_tx_pkt_wr are places where packets are consumed
> in a healthy manner.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>


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