netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 3/3] vxlan: virtual extensible lan

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:41:12 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 3/3] vxlan: virtual extensible lan

On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 13:26 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:09:50 +0200
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> 

> > 
> > I am not sure why you remove IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE here
> 
> Copied from GRE. What is impact either way? 

GRE needs skb_dst(skb) to be non NULL if tiph->daddr == NULL

but I am not sure your code needs this.

This is a performance issue, for packets waiting in a Qdisc : we'll need
to force a reference (and a cache line false sharing)



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