From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
hadi@cyberus.ca, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
mcarlson@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: RFC: on [ab]use of skb->cb by VLAN code
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:56:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AF69C7.1090504@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46AEC99E.10809@candelatech.com>
> Do we really need an 'unsigned int' for mac_len? Maybe we could use
> a 16-bit counter here, and then use the other 16 bits for the VLAN bits?
Not knowing exactly if/how it interacts with that specific field I will
point-out that IPoIB in OFED 1.2 just took their MTU to 65520. While that
doesn't break the bitbank it does get rather close.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-31 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-31 0:59 RFC: on [ab]use of skb->cb by VLAN code jamal
2007-07-31 1:33 ` David Miller
2007-07-31 2:02 ` jamal
2007-07-31 2:06 ` David Miller
2007-07-31 4:30 ` Ben Greear
2007-07-31 5:18 ` David Miller
2007-07-31 5:33 ` Ben Greear
2007-07-31 16:56 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-07-31 17:50 ` Roland Dreier
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