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Message-ID: <a43e3615-e5d8-1cd3-e38c-8db41dcb76c6@itcare.pl>
Date:   Thu, 21 Sep 2017 23:43:01 +0200
From:   Paweł Staszewski <pstaszewski@...are.pl>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel 4.13.0-rc4-next-20170811 - IP Routing / Forwarding
 performance vs Core/RSS number / HT on



W dniu 2017-09-21 o 23:41, Florian Fainelli pisze:
> On 09/21/2017 02:26 PM, Paweł Staszewski wrote:
>>
>> W dniu 2017-08-15 o 11:11, Paweł Staszewski pisze:
>>> diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c b/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
>>> index
>>> 5e831de3103e2f7092c7fa15534def403bc62fb4..9472de846d5c0960996261cb2843032847fa4bf7
>>> 100644
>>> --- a/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
>>> +++ b/net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c
>>> @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ static int vlan_newlink(struct net *src_net,
>>> struct net_device *dev,
>>>        vlan->vlan_proto = proto;
>>>        vlan->vlan_id     = nla_get_u16(data[IFLA_VLAN_ID]);
>>>        vlan->real_dev     = real_dev;
>>> +    dev->priv_flags |= (real_dev->priv_flags & IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE);
>>>        vlan->flags     = VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR;
>>>          err = vlan_check_real_dev(real_dev, vlan->vlan_proto,
>>> vlan->vlan_id);
>> Any plans for this patch to go normal into the kernel ?
> Would not this apply to pretty much any stacked device setup though? It
> seems like any network device that just queues up its packet on another
> physical device for actual transmission may need that (e.g: DSA, bond,
> team, more.?)
Some devices libe bond have it.

Just maybee when there was first patch vlans were not taken into account.
Did not checked all :)

But I know Eric will do :)