Commit 9e0db4b1 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by David S. Miller

[NET]: Bring comments in loopback.c uptodate.

A hint as to why it is safe to use per cpu variables,
and note that we actually can have multiple instances
of the loopback device now.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent fe242cfd
...@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static int loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) ...@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static int loopback_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
#endif #endif
dev->last_rx = jiffies; dev->last_rx = jiffies;
/* it's OK to use per_cpu_ptr() because BHs are off */
pcpu_lstats = netdev_priv(dev); pcpu_lstats = netdev_priv(dev);
lb_stats = per_cpu_ptr(pcpu_lstats, smp_processor_id()); lb_stats = per_cpu_ptr(pcpu_lstats, smp_processor_id());
lb_stats->bytes += skb->len; lb_stats->bytes += skb->len;
...@@ -221,7 +222,8 @@ static void loopback_dev_free(struct net_device *dev) ...@@ -221,7 +222,8 @@ static void loopback_dev_free(struct net_device *dev)
} }
/* /*
* The loopback device is special. There is only one instance. * The loopback device is special. There is only one instance
* per network namespace.
*/ */
static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev) static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev)
{ {
......
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