netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net/bpf: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling from VLAN

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Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:30:46 +0100
From:   Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net/bpf: split VLAN_PRESENT bit handling
 from VLAN_TCI

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 12:26:46PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 11/10/2018 07:58 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
> 
> Why you have empty commit messages for non-trivial changes like this in
> 4 out of 6 of your patches ...
> 
> How was it tested on the JITs you were changing? Did you test on both,
> big and little endian machines?

I have only x86 boxes currently so didn't try to test others. I hope
upstreaming the series through net-next will allow us to find any
fallouts, if any. The changes are very simple, though: they move
code around (the "splitting" part) and eventually change a vlan_present
flag's position in a skbuff structure. Dependency on CPU endianness is
removed by using byte loads for the flag.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław