From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com>,
<netdev@vger•kernel.org>, <davem@davemloft•net>, <bcrl@kvack•org>,
<ravi.mlists@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/2] dev: introduce dev_cleanup_skb()
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:05:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738s7l46p.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372097639.1896.13.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com> (Ben Hutchings's message of "Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:13:59 +0100")
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com> writes:
> On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 16:13 +0200, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> The goal of this new function is to perform all needed cleanup before sending
>> an skb into another netns.
> [...]
>
> To 'cleanup' an object often means to destroy or free it. So perhaps
> you could find an alternate verb that doesn't have that association,
> e.g. 'sanitise' or 'unmark'.
skb_scrub_packet sounds good to me. It has the right connotation
and it is shorter. :)
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-24 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-23 17:49 switching network namespace midway rsa
2012-10-24 21:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-24 21:21 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2012-10-25 1:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-25 14:38 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2012-10-25 16:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-10-28 5:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-29 14:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-10-30 0:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-30 8:55 ` James Chapman
2012-10-25 15:12 ` rsa
2012-10-25 15:29 ` rsa
2012-10-25 15:59 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2012-10-25 16:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-02 2:25 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2012-11-02 6:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-02 14:03 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2012-11-02 20:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-06-24 14:13 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 0/2] sit: allow to switch netns during encap/decap Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-24 14:13 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 1/2] dev: introduce dev_cleanup_skb() Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-24 18:13 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-06-24 19:05 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2013-06-24 14:13 ` [RFC PATCH net-next 2/2] sit: add support of x-netns Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-24 19:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-06-24 21:11 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-24 22:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-06-25 14:10 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-25 14:24 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] sit: allow to switch netns during encap/decap Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-25 14:24 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/2] dev: introduce skb_scrub_packet() Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-25 14:24 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] sit: add support of x-netns Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-25 23:56 ` David Miller
2013-06-26 1:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-06-26 5:48 ` David Miller
2013-06-26 10:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-06-26 10:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-26 12:15 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-26 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 0/2] sit: allow to switch netns during encap/decap Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-26 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 1/2] dev: introduce skb_scrub_packet() Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-26 14:11 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 2/2] sit: add support of x-netns Nicolas Dichtel
2013-06-28 5:36 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 0/2] sit: allow to switch netns during encap/decap David Miller
2013-07-03 15:00 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] ipip/ip6tnl: " Nicolas Dichtel
2013-07-03 15:00 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] sit: fix tunnel update via netlink Nicolas Dichtel
2013-07-03 15:00 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] ipip: add x-netns support Nicolas Dichtel
2013-07-03 15:00 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] ip6tnl: " Nicolas Dichtel
2013-07-04 21:56 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] ipip/ip6tnl: allow to switch netns during encap/decap David Miller
2013-08-13 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] " Nicolas Dichtel
2013-08-13 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] dev: move skb_scrub_packet() after eth_type_trans() Nicolas Dichtel
2013-08-13 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] ipv4 tunnels: use net_eq() helper to check netns Nicolas Dichtel
2013-08-13 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] ipip: add x-netns support Nicolas Dichtel
2013-08-13 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] ip6tnl: " Nicolas Dichtel
2013-08-15 8:01 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] ipip/ip6tnl: allow to switch netns during encap/decap David Miller
2013-06-26 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] sit: add support of x-netns Nicolas Dichtel
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