On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Jay Bourque wrote:
> Fix to update last_rx after netif_rx
> This is my first patch so I'd appreciate any feedback.
>
> -Jay
>
> --- linux-2.6.8.1/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c Sat Aug 14 05:55:48 2004
> +++ linux-2.6.8.1/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c.new Sat Aug 14 12:17:16 2004
> @@ -646,6 +646,7 @@ int ipgre_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
> nf_reset(skb);
> ipgre_ecn_decapsulate(iph, skb);
> netif_rx(skb);
> + tunnel->dev->last_rx = jiffies;
> read_unlock(&ipgre_lock);
> return(0);
> }
doesn't look complete, see patch below, but please read on:
the kj todo has an entry about "update last_rx after netif_rx",
i wonder what that timestamping is good for, and newer
sources 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 show 2 occurences of last_rx.
patches doing that are for young 2.4:
http://seclists.org/linux-kernel/2001/Feb/4846.html
i presume that this task is outdated,
thanks for putting light on that.
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maks
kernel janitor http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/
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