netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4: Change rt->rt

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:14:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ja@....bg
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipv4: Change rt->rt_iif encoding.

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:05:41 -0700 (PDT)

> From: Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:11:38 +0300 (EEST)
> 
>> skb_iif: ifindex of device we arrived on
>> 
>> 	If it has hidden semantic may be we can make this
>> comment more specific, does it survive some loops?
> 
> Strangely I hadn't noticed this, and after the email I just sent
> out I was going to look into adding such a value :-)
> 
> Great!
> 
> I'll respin my patches to use that thing, thanks Julian.

Hmmm, the problem is that when we decapsulate VLAN devices, we're left
with the parent device's index in skb->skb_iif.

That's what all of that "orig_dev" logic in __netif_receive_skb() is
all about.  The skb->dev is rewritten by vlan_do_receive() for that
case.

I wonder if we should just get rid of all of that orig_dev logic and
simply update skb->skb_iif every time we hit the code starting at
label "another_round"

I'll keep looking into this.
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