[PATCH next 1/3] dev: Add netif_get_l3_dev() helper

[PATCH next 1/3] dev: Add netif_get_l3_dev() helper

[Mahesh Bandewar]

From: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>

This patch adds a l3_dev pointer and a helper function to retrieve
that. During ingress L3 packet processing, this device will be used
instead of skb->dev. Since l3_dev is initialized to self; l3_dev
should be pointing to skb->dev so the normal packet processing is
neither altered nor should incur any additional cost (as it resides
in the RX cache line).

Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
CC: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>
CC: Alex Pollitt <alex.pollitt@metaswitch.com>
CC: Matthew Dupre <matthew.dupre@metaswitch.com>
---
 include/linux/netdevice.h | 6 ++++++
 net/core/dev.c            | 1 +
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index e52077ffe5ed..1cf7e8d61043 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1738,6 +1738,7 @@ struct net_device {
 	unsigned long		gro_flush_timeout;
 	rx_handler_func_t __rcu	*rx_handler;
 	void __rcu		*rx_handler_data;
+	struct net_device	*l3_dev;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT
 	struct tcf_proto __rcu  *ingress_cl_list;
@@ -4085,6 +4086,11 @@ static inline void netif_keep_dst(struct net_device *dev)
 	dev->priv_flags &= ~(IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE | IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE_PERM);
 }
 
+static inline struct net_device *netif_get_l3_dev(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	return dev->l3_dev;
+}
+
 extern struct pernet_operations __net_initdata loopback_net_ops;
 
 /* Logging, debugging and troubleshooting/diagnostic helpers. */
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index edb7179bc051..c4023a68cdc1 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -7463,6 +7463,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mqs(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
 	if (!dev->ethtool_ops)
 		dev->ethtool_ops = &default_ethtool_ops;
 
+	dev->l3_dev = dev;
 	nf_hook_ingress_init(dev);
 
 	return dev;
-- 
2.7.0.rc3.207.g0ac5344