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Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 14:41:47 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Paweł Staszewski <pstaszewski@...are.pl>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel 4.13.0-rc4-next-20170811 - IP Routing / Forwarding
 performance vs Core/RSS number / HT on

On 09/21/2017 02:26 PM, Paweł Staszewski wrote:
> 
> 
> W dniu 2017-08-15 o 11:11, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
>> diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c b/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
>> index
>> 5e831de3103e2f7092c7fa15534def403bc62fb4..9472de846d5c0960996261cb2843032847fa4bf7
>> 100644
>> --- a/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
>> +++ b/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
>> @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ static int vlan_newlink(struct net *src_net,
>> struct net_device *dev,
>>       vlan->vlan_proto = proto;
>>       vlan->vlan_id     = nla_get_u16(data[IFLA_VLAN_ID]);
>>       vlan->real_dev     = real_dev;
>> +    dev->priv_flags |= (real_dev->priv_flags & IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE);
>>       vlan->flags     = VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR;
>>         err = vlan_check_real_dev(real_dev, vlan->vlan_proto,
>> vlan->vlan_id); 
> 
> Any plans for this patch to go normal into the kernel ?

Would not this apply to pretty much any stacked device setup though? It
seems like any network device that just queues up its packet on another
physical device for actual transmission may need that (e.g: DSA, bond,
team, more.?)
-- 
Florian