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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 01:13:33 +0100 From: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/27] Allow passing of VLAN CFI bit through network stack On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 04:32:17PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl> > Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:52:33 +0100 (CET) > > > Dear NetDevs > > > > This series removes an abuse of VLAN CFI bit in Linux networking stack. > > Currently Linux always clears the bit on outgoing traffic and presents > > it cleared to userspace (even via AF_PACKET/tcpdump when hw-accelerated). > > > > This uses a new vlan_present bit in struct skbuff, and removes an assumption > > that vlan_proto != 0 when VLAN tag is present. > > > > As I can't test most of the driver changes, please look at them carefully. > > > > The series is supposed to be bisect-friendly and that requires temporary > > insertion of #define VLAN_TAG_PRESENT in BPF code to be able to split > > JIT changes per architecture. > > > > Best Regards, > > Michał Mirosław > This patch series is really way too large. > > You're going to have to find a way to combine related changes, or submit > this as a series of logical sets, one at a time. I have sent all the cleanups that don't depend on each other. Please consider for applying. Best Regards, Michał Mirosław
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