netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v11 3/6] openvswitch: set skb protocol and mac

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:17:36 +0900
From:	Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
To:	pravin shelar <pshelar@....org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	ovs dev <dev@...nvswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v11 3/6] openvswitch: set skb protocol
 and mac_len when receiving on internal device

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 01:52:25PM -0700, pravin shelar wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Simon Horman
> <simon.horman@...ronome.com> wrote:
> > * Set skb protocol based on contents of packet. I have observed this is
> >   necessary to get actual protocol of a packet when it is injected into an
> >   internal device e.g. by libnet in which case skb protocol will be set to
> >   ETH_ALL.
> >
> I am not sure what do yo mean by ETH_ALL. I could not find it in the kernel.
> anyways, Can we fix libnet to set skb->protocol field correctly? The
> change is introducing overhead for every packet received on internal
> port.

It was quite a while ago since I wrote this patch and I don't recall what
I meant by ETH_ALL.

I now plan to drop this patch.