From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Get flow key down into ipv4 datagram packet engine Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 18:07:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110508.180751.191383672.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:54399 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756285Ab1EIBIY (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 May 2011 21:08:24 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sunset.davemloft.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E1724C087 for ; Sun, 8 May 2011 18:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The really nice part about this patch set is that it will subsequently allow us to kill a lot of on-stack stuff. Parts of what we pass around in the flow key is also passed around in this "ipcm_cookie" object we use for datagram/raw/icmp packet construction. So now we can perform some minimizations on ipcm_cookie as a result.