[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] datapath: Use vlan deacceleration function in upcall.

[Jesse Gross]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:01:07PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> vlan_deaccel_tag() was introduced to move a vlan tag from skb->vlan_tci
>> to the packet but there was still an open coded varient when doing
>> an upcall.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
>
> This message presents this as a change without any difference in
> behavior, but the code being deleted does not zero the skb's vlan_tci
> whereas vlan_deaccel_tag() does.

Clearing skb->vlan_tci makes no difference here because the skb is
freed shortly afterwards and nothing in between reads vlan_tci.
Regardless, clearing it is probably the more correct thing to do
anyways.  I added a note to the commit message.

>
> Assuming that's intentional:
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Thanks, I pushed both of these.