netdev - Re: [PATCH] TX_RING and packet mmap

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Message-ID: <20090407130447.GA14329@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2009 21:04:47 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Cc:	Johann Baudy <johann.baudy@...-log.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TX_RING and packet mmap

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:48:40AM -0400, jamal wrote:
>
> I see it as being non-trivial even with tc/mark. What did you
> have in mind? 

Well through tc ipt actions you can invoke arbitrary netfilter
targets, including MARK --set-mark.

In fact I've never really liked tc ipt actions since it doesn't
do any sanity checking on the packet before invoking the target
while normally netfitler does quite a bit of sanity checking.

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