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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dhcp client packet sniffing...
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:11:44 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100408.051144.183699401.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100408114738.GA23329@gondor.apana.org.au>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:47:38 +0800

> Another approach is to use skb_share.  At some point all protocols
> were designed to handle shared skbs.
> 
> If we could tap into that then it would be an obvious way to
> eliminate the clone.  To do this we'd need to audit all the
> protocols to ensure that they can still handle shared packets
> safely.

I don't even want to call down into the AF_PACKET code for
the case where the filter doesn't pass.

We have the socket pointer etc. already in dev_queue_xmit_nit(), so we
can easily do it.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-08 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-08 10:50 dhcp client packet sniffing David Miller
2010-04-08 10:59 ` Neil Horman
2010-04-08 11:01   ` David Miller
2010-04-08 11:47 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-08 12:11   ` David Miller [this message]
2010-04-08 12:30     ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-08 12:49       ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-08 13:12         ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-08 13:23           ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-08 14:27   ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-08 14:37     ` Maxime Bizon
2010-04-08 15:07       ` Herbert Xu

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