netdev - Re: [PATCH nf-next v5 0/6] Netfilter egress hook

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Message-ID: <20210930171253.GA13673@wunner.de>
Date:   Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:12:53 +0200
From:   Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kadlec@...filter.org, fw@...len.de,
        ast@...nel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, tgraf@...g.ch,
        nevola@...il.com, john.fastabend@...il.com, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next v5 0/6] Netfilter egress hook

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 07:28:35AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:21:42 +0200 Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > this is stuffing one more bit into the skbuff
> 
> The lifetime of this information is constrained, can't it be a percpu
> flag, like xmit_more?

Hm, can't an skb be queued and processed later on a different cpu?
E.g. what about fragments?

That would rule out a percpu flag, leaving a flag in struct sk_buff
as the only option.

Thanks,

Lukas