[ovs-dev] [PATCH 04/14] datapath: Remove share check for internal devices.
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Thu Dec 2 23:22:59 UTC 2010
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:36:53PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> When transmitting on a device, dev_hard_start_xmit() always provides
> a private clone. The skb_share_check() in internal_dev_xmit() is
> therefore unnecessary, so remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
I found it really hard to verify this property by looking at
dev_hard_start_xmit(). But I found enough code that depends on it to
convince me. So:
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
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