Re: [PATCH 45/54] spider_net: Call dev_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 dev_kfree_skb with dev_consume_skb_any in
> spider_net_release_tx_chain which can be called in hard irq and other
> contexts.
> 
> dev_consume_skb_any was choosen as it preserves the current
> dev_kfree_skb semantics (dev_kfree_skb is consume_skb) and
> is because it is correct most of the time as most packets
> will have been successfully transmitted not dropeed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>


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