netdev - Re: macvlan: optimizing the receive path?

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Message-ID: <1412704842.11091.147.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2014 11:00:42 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
Cc:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kaber@...sh.net" <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: macvlan: optimizing the receive path?

On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 13:35 -0400, Jason Baron wrote:

> So if there are no objections, I will post as a formal patch.

I think the code used netif_rx() as a precaution because of
multicast/broadcasts.

Now these are taken care (if multicast filter + work queue for
broadcasts), it seems ok to have a fast path.


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