netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/7] inet: refactor inet[6]

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Message-ID: <1454650606.7627.301.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:36:46 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Craig Gallek <kraigatgoog@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/7] inet: refactor inet[6]_lookup functions to
 take skb

On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 10:35 -0500, Craig Gallek wrote:
> From: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>
> 
> This is a preliminary step to allow fast socket lookup of SO_REUSEPORT
> groups.  Doing so with a BPF filter will require access to the
> skb in question.  This change plumbs the skb (and offset to payload
> data) through the call stack to the listening socket lookup
> implementations where it will be used in a following patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>