Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: act_mirred: use the backlog for mirred ingress

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:31:32 -0800

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:10:37 +0100 Davide Caratti wrote:
> > So tests pass - but on the list i only see one patch and the other is
> > on lore, not sure how to ACK something that is not on email, but FWIW:
> > Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > The second patch avoids the recursion issue (which was the root cause)
> > and the first patch is really undoing ca22da2fbd693  
> 
> If I well read, Jakub's patch [1] uses the backlog for egress->ingress
> regardless of the "nest level": no more calls to netif_receive_skb():
> It's the same as my initial proposal for fixing the OVS soft-lockup [2],
> the code is different because now we have tcf_mirred_to_dev().

FWIW feel free to add your Sob or Co-dev+Sob!
It is very much the same solution as what you posted at some stage.