From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:53:40 -0600
> > This patch add support for dynamically allocating the statistics counters > for the loopback device and adds appropriate device methods for allocating > and freeing the loopback device. > > This completes support for creating multiple instances of the loopback > device, in preparation for creating per network namespace instances. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied to net-2.6.24, thanks. > @@ -155,7 +154,8 @@ static int loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct > net_device *dev) > dev->last_rx = jiffies; > > /* it's OK to use __get_cpu_var() because BHs are off */ > - lb_stats = &__get_cpu_var(pcpu_lstats); > + pcpu_lstats = netdev_priv(dev); > + lb_stats = per_cpu_ptr(pcpu_lstats, smp_processor_id()); > lb_stats->bytes += skb->len; > lb_stats->packets++; > I'm going to add a followon change that gets rid of that comment about __get_cpu_var() since it is no longer relevant. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
