netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/8] flow_keys: Record IP layer protocol in skb_flow

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:08:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	_govind@....com, dborkman@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ssujith@...co.com, gvaradar@...co.com, benve@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/8] flow_keys: Record IP layer protocol in
 skb_flow_dissect()

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:06:36 -0700 (PDT)

> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 07:26:30 -0700
> 
>> On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 19:38 +0530, Govindarajulu Varadarajan wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>>> determining IPv4/IPv6 is important because this can be used in dissecting flow
>>> in Accelerated RFS. Adaptor does not support IPv6 filters. Since Accelerated
>>> RFS is supported for IPV6, using skb_flow_dissect will return true with non-zero
>>> values in src/dst for IPv6.
>>> 
>>> If I am going to write separate function for getting IP address and port
>>> numbers, its definition is going to be somewhat same as skb_flow_dissect.
>>> Why not improve whats already written and reuse it?
>>> 
>>> Is there any significant downside of adding u16 n_proto and increasing
>>> size of qdisc_skb_cb by 4 bytes?
>> 
>> You can avoid this increase (might be bad for IB, hard to tell), by
>> changing sch_choke.c to only store a part of the struct flow_keys.
> 
> I think this is fine, IPOIB's control block will need still just 44
> bytes after these changes, so there will still be 4 bytes to spare.
> 
> I'm going to apply this series.

Actually, I change my mind, Govindarajulu can you address Sergei's feedback
in your other changes and repost this series?

Thanks.
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