netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] [VLAN]: Unclassified vlan packet

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Date:	Mon, 26 May 2008 23:20:58 -0700
From:	"Joonwoo Park" <joonwpark81@...il.com>
To:	"Patrick McHardy" <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] [VLAN]: Unclassified vlan packet

2008/5/26 Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>:
> Joonwoo Park wrote:
>>
>> To be polite to the PACKET,
>> Don't kill the unclassified & hardware accelerated vlan packets if netdev
>> is in promiscuous, set packet type with PACKET_OTHERHOST. Put the vlan tag
>> into skb->cb for all hardware accelerated vlan packets.
>
> Conceptually I think this patch goes in the right direction,
> one question remaining is when to invalidate the VLAN tag again.
>
> The only solution I could come up with is invalidating it in
> netif_receive_skb() when the receiving device is not a VLAN
> device and additionally invalidating it in all callers of
> dev_queue_xmit except VLAN itself, but I would really prefer
> something less error prone without touching netif_receive_skb().
>
> BTW, I already have a patch queued to move the VLAN tag from
> skb->cb to a seperate skb member to fix the the conflict with
> qdiscs (this should also allow to use vlan accel through virtual
> network devices later on). So please don't resend, I'll integrate
> the patch on top of this change once we find a good spot for
> invalidation.
>

Thanks Patrick for reviewing.
I'll be looking forward to seeing it on the list.

Thanks,
Joonwoo
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