netdev - Re: tun: Use netif_receive_skb instead of netif

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Message-ID: <20100520025741.GA6129@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 20 May 2010 12:57:42 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	bmb@...enacr.com, tgraf@...hat.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
	nhorman@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tun: Use netif_receive_skb instead of netif_rx

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 07:55:33PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Since it seems now inevitable to me that we'll need to store the
> 'classid' in struct sk_buff, I've prepared two patches to do that at
> zero cost.

Actually I'm currently working on a patch to store this in struct
sock.  The reason I prefer struct sock is because we can then
centralise the place where we set the classid rather than having
it spread out through every place that creates an skb.

I'll post it soon.

Cheers,
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