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SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/10] cxgb3 - Unmap offload packets when they are freed.
Divy Le Ray wrote:
> From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
>
> Offload packets may be DMAed long after their SGE Tx descriptors are done
> so they must remain mapped until they are freed rather than until their
> descriptors are freed. Unmap such packets through an skb destructor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>

this is questionable and sounds like you are working around a bug. I
can't think of another driver that uses skb destructors, and I could
have sworn that skb destructors were not for drivers to use anyway

Jeff


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