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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/08]: vlan: deliver packets received with VLAN acceleration to network taps
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:35:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709123520.GK28029@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080709120948.11669.98935.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> vlan: deliver packets received with VLAN acceleration to network taps
> 
> When VLAN header stripping is used, packets currently bypass packet
> sockets (and other network taps) completely. For locally existing
> VLANs, they appear directly on the VLAN device, for unknown VLANs
> they are silently dropped.
> 
> Add a new function netif_nit_deliver() to deliver incoming packets
> to all network interface taps and use it in __vlan_hwaccel_rx() to
> make VLAN packets visible on the underlying device.
[...]
> +/*
> + * 	netif_tap_deliver - deliver received packets to network taps
> + * 	@skb: buffer
> + *
> + * 	This function is used to deliver incoming packets to network
> + * 	taps. It should be used when the normal netif_receive_skb path
> + * 	is bypassed, for example because of VLAN acceleration.
> + */
> +void netif_nit_deliver(struct sk_buff *skb)
[...]

Is it supposed to be called netif_nit_deliver() or netif_tap_deliver()?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-09 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-09 12:09 [PATCH 00/08]: VLAN update Patrick McHardy
2008-07-09 12:09 ` [PATCH 01/08]: vlan: Don't store VLAN tag in cb Patrick McHardy
2008-07-09 12:09 ` [PATCH 02/08]: vlan: deliver packets received with VLAN acceleration to network taps Patrick McHardy
2008-07-09 12:35   ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2008-07-09 12:37     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-07-09 12:09 ` [PATCH 03/08]: packet: support extensible, 64 bit clean mmaped ring structure Patrick McHardy
2008-07-09 12:09 ` [PATCH 04/08]: packet: deliver VLAN TCI to userspace Patrick McHardy
2008-07-09 12:09 ` [PATCH 05/08]: vlan: ethtool ->get_flags support Patrick McHardy
2008-07-09 12:09 ` [PATCH 06/08]: vlan: clean up vlan_dev_hard_header() Patrick McHardy
2008-07-09 12:09 ` [PATCH 07/08]: vlan: clean up hard_start_xmit functions Patrick McHardy
2008-07-09 12:09 ` [PATCH 08/08]: vlan: remove unnecessary include statements Patrick McHardy
2008-07-09 12:12 ` [PATCH 00/08]: VLAN update Patrick McHardy
2008-07-15  5:56 ` David Miller

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