From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][IPSEC]: tunnel mode processing
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:07:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060901040713.GA9840@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157072127.5057.39.camel@jzny2>
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:55:27PM -0400, jamal wrote:
>
> Would it be reasonable to do a check so that incase a skb->dst doesnt
> exist, the inner headers values can be used i.e something along
> xfrm4_tunnel_output()::
If you didn't care what values they were, couldn't you just stuff some
bogus dst into the skb? If this packet is going somewhere you're going
to have a dst one way or another :)
Also, the IPID is only generated if DF is not set on the packet.
Otherwise this path is already as fast as it can be.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-01 4:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-01 0:55 [RFC][IPSEC]: tunnel mode processing jamal
2006-09-01 4:07 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2006-09-01 12:17 ` jamal
2006-09-01 12:22 ` Herbert Xu
2006-09-01 12:56 ` jamal
2006-09-01 13:04 ` Herbert Xu
2006-09-01 13:12 ` jamal
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