From: Jim Baxter <jim_baxter@mentor.com>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: VLAN driver question
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:12:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BF5F81.2040207@mentor.com> (raw)
I have a network card that has a single flag to indicate if a received
packet contains a vlan packet.
Can I use this to accelerate the kernels handling of the packet with
something like the following?
/* Handle received VLAN packets */
if ((ndev->features & NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX) && ebdp &&
(ebdp->cbd_esc &
BD_ENET_RX_VLAN)) {
/* Push and remove the vlan tag */
struct vlan_hdr *vlan_header;
u16 vlan_tag;
vlan_header = (struct vlan_hdr *) skb->data;
vlan_tag = ntohs(vlan_header->h_vlan_TCI);
__vlan_hwaccel_put_tag(skb, vlan_tag);
skb->len -= VLAN_HLEN;
skb->data += VLAN_HLEN;
vlan_set_encap_proto(skb, vlan_header);
}
napi_gro_receive(&fep->napi, skb);
Also I cannot find any documentation stating what the difference is
between NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_RX and NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER, can
anyone define it?
The FILTER word on NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_CTAG_FILTER suggests it may be
applicable to received packets.
Thank you for your help and comments.
Jim Baxter
next reply other threads:[~2013-06-17 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-17 19:12 Jim Baxter [this message]
2013-06-18 14:41 ` VLAN driver question Ben Hutchings
2013-06-19 15:57 ` Jim Baxter
2013-06-19 16:33 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-06-20 19:05 ` Jim Baxter
2013-06-21 15:42 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-06-21 17:02 ` Jim Baxter
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