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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] net: add skb.old_queue_mapping
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:40:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292416832.2067.13.camel@mojatatu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292251414-5154-5-git-send-email-xiaosuo@gmail.com>

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 22:43 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
> For the skbs returned from ifb, we should use the queue_mapping
> saved before ifb.
> 
> We save old queue_mapping in old_queue_mapping just before calling 
> dev_queue_xmit, and restore the old_queue_mapping to queue_mapping
> just before reinjecting the skb.
> 
> dev_pick_tx() use the current queue_mapping for the skbs reinjected
> by ifb.

You are hard-coding policy here, no? ifb can do a lot of funky things
which change the nature of the flow. I can shape, i can edit packets
etc. Why is the queue mapping any different?

cheers,
jamal


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-15 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-13 14:43 [PATCH 1/5] ifb: remove function declarations Changli Gao
2010-12-13 14:43 ` [PATCH 2/5] ifb: code cleanup Changli Gao
2010-12-15 12:32   ` jamal
2010-12-13 14:43 ` [PATCH 3/5] ifb: fix tx_queue_len overlimit Changli Gao
2010-12-15 12:33   ` jamal
2010-12-15 12:36     ` Changli Gao
2010-12-15 12:42       ` jamal
2010-12-13 14:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] ifb: add multiqueue support Changli Gao
2010-12-13 16:26   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-13 23:42     ` Changli Gao
2010-12-13 17:05   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-13 23:46     ` Changli Gao
2010-12-15 12:34   ` jamal
2010-12-13 14:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] net: add skb.old_queue_mapping Changli Gao
2010-12-13 16:56   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-13 17:58     ` David Miller
2010-12-13 23:58     ` Changli Gao
2010-12-15  2:59       ` Changli Gao
2010-12-15 12:40   ` jamal [this message]
2010-12-15 12:52     ` Changli Gao
2010-12-15 12:31 ` [PATCH 1/5] ifb: remove function declarations jamal

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