[Devel] [PATCH rh7 03/11] net: core: trivial netif_receive_skb_list() entry point

Andrey Ryabinin aryabinin at virtuozzo.com
Mon Sep 10 18:39:32 MSK 2018


From: Edward Cree <ecree at solarflare.com>

Just calls netif_receive_skb() in a loop.

Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree at solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>

https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-88420
(cherry picked from commit f6ad8c1bcdf014272d08c55b9469536952a0a771)
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
---
 include/linux/netdevice.h |  1 +
 net/core/dev.c            | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index c81195901e42..8c9a76d3282b 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3389,6 +3389,7 @@ static inline void dev_consume_skb_any(struct sk_buff *skb)
 int netif_rx(struct sk_buff *skb);
 int netif_rx_ni(struct sk_buff *skb);
 int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
+void netif_receive_skb_list(struct list_head *head);
 gro_result_t napi_gro_receive(struct napi_struct *napi, struct sk_buff *skb);
 void napi_gro_flush(struct napi_struct *napi, bool flush_old);
 struct sk_buff *napi_get_frags(struct napi_struct *napi);
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index fd8e2ebf4bd7..30d7efdce6a7 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4271,6 +4271,25 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_receive_skb);
 
+/**
+ *	netif_receive_skb_list - process many receive buffers from network
+ *	@head: list of skbs to process.
+ *
+ *	For now, just calls netif_receive_skb() in a loop, ignoring the
+ *	return value.
+ *
+ *	This function may only be called from softirq context and interrupts
+ *	should be enabled.
+ */
+void netif_receive_skb_list(struct list_head *head)
+{
+	struct sk_buff *skb, *next;
+
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(skb, next, head, list)
+		netif_receive_skb(skb);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_receive_skb_list);
+
 /* Network device is going away, flush any packets still pending
  * Called with irqs disabled.
  */
-- 
2.16.4



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