netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/10] [NET]: Avoid unnecessary cloning for ingress filtering

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Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:28:02 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/10] [NET]: Avoid unnecessary cloning for ingress
	filtering

On Mon, 2007-15-10 at 18:55 +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hello!

Didnt mean to wake you up Alexey ;->

> I see not so many places inside net/sched/act* where skb_clone is used.
> Exactly one in act_mirred.c, to be more exact. Did I miss something?

No you are right, thats the only spot at the moment. 
What i meant however was the design-intent/enviromental-rules for all
actions that branch is to clone, and when you do that you reset those
fields i described. I am looking at the new clone and i can see
Herbert's point - it does look less pleasant to stare at with that
#ifdef; i will send a patch to pull it out and also write a small doc to
describe the environmental rules.

cheers,
jamal

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