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Message-Id: <20090717.205400.202210753.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:54:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: therbert@...gle.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Receive Packet Steering
From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:59:31 -0700
> eth_type_trans does not need to even be called assuming that the
> packet type information can be inferred from the RX descriptor.
Great assumption :-)
We investigated doing that in the past but it's racey and can't be
made to work in all situations.
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