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Commit 41a50d62 authored by Alexander Drozdov's avatar Alexander Drozdov Committed by David S. Miller
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af_packet: don't pass empty blocks for PACKET_V3

Before da413eec

 ("packet: Fixed TPACKET V3 to signal poll when block is
closed rather than every packet") poll listening for an af_packet socket was
not signaled if there was no packets to process. After the patch poll is
signaled evety time when block retire timer expires. That happens because
af_packet closes the current block on timeout even if the block is empty.

Passing empty blocks to the user not only wastes CPU but also wastes ring
buffer space increasing probability of packets dropping on small timeouts.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Drozdov <al.drozdov@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Collins <dan@dcollins.co.nz>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 4e10fd5b
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