netdev - Re: [PATCH] veth: remove hardware checksum feature

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Date:	Thu, 08 Aug 2013 15:22:11 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] veth: remove hardware checksum feature

On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 15:13 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

> Looks like it should work nicely, except it would be really
> nice if I could short-circuit the xmit_nit() part for my
> protocol handler.
> 
> Think there would be any interest in allowing the ptype_all
> handlers to optionally register a direction (ie tx-only, rx-only, both)
> and have dev_queue_xmit_nit() pay attention to that?

Sure, it would also make sense to apply the BPF filter _before_ doing
the skb_clone()

Right now, we :

clone packets
-> deliver the clone to the sniffer.
 sniffer eventuall drops the packet after BPF filtering.

Its trivial to test the tx/rx thing in BPF, and it's JIT code.



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