netdev - Re: [patch net-next-2.6] net: convert bonding to use rx

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Message-ID: <20110218201314.GD2602@psychotron.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:13:15 +0100
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, fubar@...ibm.com,
	nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] net: convert bonding to use rx_handler

Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:06:56PM CET, davem@...emloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:58:51 +0100
>
>> Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 03:46:45PM CET, kaber@...sh.net wrote:
>>>Am 18.02.2011 15:27, schrieb Eric Dumazet:
>>>> Le vendredi 18 février 2011 à 15:14 +0100, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>>> Do not know how to do it better. As for percpu variable, not only
>>>>> origdev would have to be remembered but also probably skb pointer to
>>>>> know if it's the first run on the skb or not. Can't really figure out a
>>>>> better solution. Can you?
>>>> 
>>>> I'll try and let you know.
>>>
>>>Why not simply do a lookup on skb->iif?
>> 
>> Well I was trying to avoid iterating over list of devices for each
>> incoming frame.
>
>It is not list, it is hash :-)

Even if, Do you think that this would be ok?

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