From: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:12:45 +0100
Subject: net: core: trivial netif_receive_skb_list() entry point
Patch-mainline: v4.19-rc1
Git-commit: f6ad8c1bcdf014272d08c55b9469536952a0a771
References: bsc#1109837
Just calls netif_receive_skb() in a loop.
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 +
net/core/dev.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -3439,6 +3439,7 @@ int netif_rx(struct sk_buff *skb);
int netif_rx_ni(struct sk_buff *skb);
int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
int netif_receive_skb_core(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);
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4881,6 +4881,25 @@ int netif_receive_skb(struct sk_buff *sk
}
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);
+
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct work_struct, flush_works);
/* Network device is going away, flush any packets still pending */