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Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 02:41:22 -0700
From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>,
Nicolas de Pesloüan
<nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, kaber@...sh.net, fubar@...ibm.com,
eric.dumazet@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net,
Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] vlan: Do not support clearing VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR
Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com> writes:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>>> In another side, is there a specification which defines the
>>> hw-accel-vlan-rx?
>>
>> I don't know.
>>
>> I have just been trying to clean up the mess since some of the
>> hw-accel-vlan code broke my use case, by delivering packets with
>> priority but no vlan (aka vlan 0 packets) twice to my pf_packet sockets.
>>
>
> OK. But if we have decided to simulate the hw-accel-vlan-rx, I think
> we'd better adjust the place where we put the emulation code. The very
> beginnings of netif_rx() and neif_receive_skb() are better. Then rps
> can support vlan packets without any change.
That sounds nice. Patches are welcome.
In principle it should be doable with some code motion. I don't think
moving vlan_untag earlier constitutes a bug fix.
In my investigation earlier I found a non-trivial number of paths into
__netif_receive_skb. So it was not clear to me in the slightest how to
move the check earlier without modifying every networking driver and a
few other pieces of code.
Why should receive packet steering be affected by vlan tags at all?
Eric
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