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Message-Id: <20140723.144759.1498389231853548910.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2014 14:47:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pshelar@...ira.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, horms@...ge.net.au, jesse@...ira.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v8 5/6] openvswitch: Sample action without
 side effects

From: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:35:16 -0700

> * As sample() provides a cloned skb in the unlikely case where there are
>   nested actions other than a single userspace action it is no longer
>   necessary to clone the skb in do_execute_actions() when executing a
>   recirculation action just because the keep_skb parameter is set:

This commit log message talks about recirculation, which has been removed
from this series.

And in fact, I think, for my suggested implementation of recirculation
by just returning and re-running the stack, this whole skb clone issue
either goes away or needs to happen in a different place.

If you recirculate by just returning and re-processing the packet at
the top-level entry point into openvswitch, then that's where you
would clone.
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