From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:50:08 +0200

> Hmm, problem is the sender thinks the packet was queued for
> transmission.
> 
>         ret = macvlan_queue_xmit(skb, dev);
>         if (likely(ret == NET_XMIT_SUCCESS || ret == NET_XMIT_CN)) {
>                 struct macvlan_pcpu_stats *pcpu_stats;
> 
>                 pcpu_stats = this_cpu_ptr(vlan->pcpu_stats);
>                 u64_stats_update_begin(&pcpu_stats->syncp);
>                 pcpu_stats->tx_packets++;
>                 pcpu_stats->tx_bytes += len;
>                 u64_stats_update_end(&pcpu_stats->syncp);
>         } else {
>                 this_cpu_inc(vlan->pcpu_stats->tx_dropped);
>         }
> 
> NET_XMIT_CN has a lazy semantic it seems.
> 
> I will just dont rely on it.

I think we cannot just ignore this issue.  I will take a deeper look,
because we should have NET_XMIT_CN be very well defined and adjust any
mis-use.
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