From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Vicente Feito <vicente.feito@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Reducing the overhead on the network core
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:14:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050328171436.62a0b80b.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503282144.08870.vicente.feito@gmail.com>
We already do this and set the skb->packet_type field to
PACKET_HOST, PACKET_BROADCAST, PACKET_MULTICAST etc.
And the input paths test these values.
We still have to pass the packet into netif_rx() to deal
with network taps that want to see packets that are not
destined for us in any way.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-29 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-28 21:44 Reducing the overhead on the network core Vicente Feito
2005-03-29 1:14 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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