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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "'netdev@oss.sgi.com'" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Pktgen receive hook in dev.c?
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:14:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114820059.8929.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4272C384.50901@candelatech.com>

On Fri, 2005-29-04 at 16:30 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> I am curious if there is any interest in adding a hook in the netif_receive_skb
> method to allow receiving (and consuming) pktgen packets.  This gives the ability
> to get some good packet receive & latency stats using pktgen.
> 
> I asked this a year or so ago and was told no, but since then the netpoll and
> TC_NCLS hooks have been added.... so maybe hooks are OK again?
> 

Write an action. It should be trivial to consume pktgen. Infact if all
you wanted was to count, use the gact action.

cheers,
jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-30  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-29 23:30 Pktgen receive hook in dev.c? Ben Greear
2005-04-30  0:14 ` jamal [this message]
2005-04-30  0:28   ` Ben Greear
2005-04-30  0:41     ` jamal

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