If nobody is listening on the multicast group, generating the sample, which involves copying packet data, seems completely unnecessary.
Return fast in this case. Signed-off-by: Adrian Moreno <amore...@redhat.com> --- net/psample/psample.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/psample/psample.c b/net/psample/psample.c index b37488f426bc..1c76f3e48dcd 100644 --- a/net/psample/psample.c +++ b/net/psample/psample.c @@ -376,6 +376,10 @@ void psample_sample_packet(struct psample_group *group, struct sk_buff *skb, void *data; int ret; + if (!genl_has_listeners(&psample_nl_family, group->net, + PSAMPLE_NL_MCGRP_SAMPLE)) + return; + meta_len = (in_ifindex ? nla_total_size(sizeof(u16)) : 0) + (out_ifindex ? nla_total_size(sizeof(u16)) : 0) + (md->out_tc_valid ? nla_total_size(sizeof(u16)) : 0) + -- 2.45.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev