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Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 1e27a67df242..d20c28e839d3 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1672,10 +1672,21 @@ static int dev_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb) return 0; } +static void tstamp_tx(struct sk_buff *skb) +{ + union skb_shared_tx *shtx = + skb_tx(skb); + if (unlikely(shtx->software && + !shtx->in_progress)) { + skb_tstamp_tx(skb, NULL); + } +} + int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct netdev_queue *txq) { const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops; + int rc; prefetch(&dev->netdev_ops->ndo_start_xmit); if (likely(!skb->next)) { @@ -1689,13 +1700,29 @@ int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, goto gso; } - return ops->ndo_start_xmit(skb, dev); + rc = ops->ndo_start_xmit(skb, dev); + /* + * TODO: if skb_orphan() was called by + * dev->hard_start_xmit() (for example, the unmodified + * igb driver does that; bnx2 doesn't), then + * skb_tx_software_timestamp() will be unable to send + * back the time stamp. + * + * How can this be prevented? Always create another + * reference to the socket before calling + * dev->hard_start_xmit()? Prevent that skb_orphan() + * does anything in dev->hard_start_xmit() by clearing + * the skb destructor before the call and restoring it + * afterwards, then doing the skb_orphan() ourselves? + */ + if (likely(!rc)) + tstamp_tx(skb); + return rc; } gso: do { struct sk_buff *nskb = skb->next; - int rc; skb->next = nskb->next; nskb->next = NULL; @@ -1705,6 +1732,7 @@ gso: skb->next = nskb; return rc; } + tstamp_tx(skb); if (unlikely(netif_tx_queue_stopped(txq) && skb->next)) return NETDEV_TX_BUSY; } while (skb->next); |