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Message-ID: <20160927212420.4677e0f2@halley>
Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:24:20 +0300
From:   Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net/sched: act_mirred: Rename tcfm_ok_push
 to tcfm_mac_header_xmit

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:30:20 +0200 Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:
> On 09/22/2016 03:21 PM, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> > From: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
> >
> > 'tcfm_ok_push' specifies whether a mac_len sized push is needed upon
> > egress to the target device (if action is performed at ingress).
> >
> > Rename it to 'tcfm_mac_header_xmit' as this is actually an attribute of
> > the target device.
> > This allows to decouple the attribute from the action to be taken.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
> > ---
> >   include/net/tc_act/tc_mirred.h |  2 +-
> >   net/sched/act_mirred.c         | 10 +++++-----
> >   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/net/tc_act/tc_mirred.h b/include/net/tc_act/tc_mirred.h
> > index 62770ad..5275158 100644
> > --- a/include/net/tc_act/tc_mirred.h
> > +++ b/include/net/tc_act/tc_mirred.h
> > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ struct tcf_mirred {
> >   	struct tc_action	common;
> >   	int			tcfm_eaction;
> >   	int			tcfm_ifindex;
> > -	int			tcfm_ok_push;
> > +	int			tcfm_mac_header_xmit;  
> 
> Since you already touch this here and in patch 2/4 anyway, maybe
> make that a bool along the way?

Ok.
(Thought of it, but my urge to lessen the diff eventually won)

> Perhaps instead of tcfm_mac_header_xmit, tcfm_mac_header_push
> might be a better name?

Don't think so.

Eventually this serves as the decision to either push or pull, so prefer
not to name it as the action (push/pull) but rather what is target
device's property (xmits at mh?).