Subject: Re: macvlan: optimizing the receive path?

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 14:31:36 -0700

On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:28:13 -0400
Jason Baron <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering why the netif_rx(skb) call in macvlan_handle_frame()
> was necessary? IE:

It is to prevent too deep a call stack of
  netif_receive_skb
     macvlan_receive
        netif_receive_skb ...