From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Jiri Pirko" <jpirko@redhat.com>,
"Changli Gao" <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, fubar@us.ibm.com,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, andy@greyhouse.net,
"Jesse Gross" <jesse@nicira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] vlan: Do not support clearing VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:00:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110523140048.777fb378@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DDAC26C.2070601@candelatech.com>
> Well, yes..unless perhaps when the REORDER_HDR flag is enabled.
>
> As for when the tag is added/removed, as long as we don't end up doing
> a remove and then an add (in software), and as long as the pkt is correct
> going to user-space, it doesn't matter to me.
>
> It would be lame to remove it in software and then re-add it,
> unless absolutely required for some reason.
IMHO the REORDER_HDR flag was a design mistake. It means supporting
two different API's for the application. For a packet capture application
it means the format of the packet will be different based on how
the VLAN was created. And the vlan was created outside the application.
If there was a requirement to support both formats, then it should
be a property of the AF_PACKET socket. The application can then do
an setsockopt() to control the format of the data. The issue is
for things like mmap/AF_PACKET the re-inserted form will be slower
since data has to be copied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-23 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-08 5:48 [patch net-next-2.6 v2] net: vlan: make non-hw-accel rx path similar to hw-accel Jiri Pirko
2011-04-12 21:16 ` David Miller
2011-05-21 1:11 ` Changli Gao
2011-05-21 7:29 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-21 10:43 ` Changli Gao
2011-05-21 13:17 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-21 17:54 ` Jesse Gross
2011-05-21 22:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-22 2:59 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-22 6:29 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-22 6:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 8:34 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-22 8:52 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-22 9:10 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-22 9:20 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-22 9:36 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-22 9:53 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-22 10:04 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-22 16:11 ` Jesse Gross
2011-05-22 18:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 19:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 19:39 ` [PATCH 1/3] vlan: Do not support clearing VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 19:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] vlan: Always strip the vlan header in vlan_untag Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 19:42 ` [PATCH 3/3] vlan: Simplify the code now that VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR is always set Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-09 10:59 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-12 6:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 21:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] vlan: Do not support clearing VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR Ben Greear
2011-05-22 22:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 0:38 ` Changli Gao
2011-05-23 1:26 ` Changli Gao
2011-05-23 1:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 2:14 ` Changli Gao
2011-05-23 9:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 10:43 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-23 19:48 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-24 5:58 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-24 7:19 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-23 1:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 6:01 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 9:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 16:33 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 19:36 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-23 20:24 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 21:00 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-05-23 21:20 ` David Miller
2011-05-23 22:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 22:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-23 22:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 22:23 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 23:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-24 4:20 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-24 7:11 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-24 7:44 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-24 15:17 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-24 5:19 ` David Miller
2011-05-24 7:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-24 15:44 ` Ben Greear
2011-05-24 0:11 ` [PATCH] vlan: Fix the b0rked ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-24 4:54 ` David Miller
2011-05-24 6:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-24 6:24 ` David Miller
2011-05-24 7:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-02 3:59 ` David Miller
2011-06-02 13:03 ` [PATCH] vlan: Fix the ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check v2 Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-02 13:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-02 14:54 ` Changli Gao
2011-06-02 15:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-02 23:18 ` Changli Gao
2011-06-06 14:48 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-03 3:34 ` padmanabh ratnakar
2011-06-03 3:59 ` Changli Gao
2011-06-05 21:14 ` David Miller
2011-06-10 8:35 ` [PATCH v3] vlan: Fix the ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check Jiri Pirko
2011-06-10 9:26 ` Changli Gao
2011-06-10 9:34 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-10 9:49 ` Changli Gao
2011-06-10 10:35 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-10 11:20 ` Changli Gao
2011-06-10 12:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-10 16:56 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-11 0:05 ` Changli Gao
2011-06-11 23:16 ` David Miller
2011-06-08 16:28 ` [PATCH] vlan: Fix the ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check v2 Jiri Pirko
2011-06-08 23:08 ` Changli Gao
2011-06-09 6:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-09 11:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] vlan: Do not support clearing VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR Jiri Pirko
2011-05-22 8:38 ` [patch net-next-2.6 v2] net: vlan: make non-hw-accel rx path similar to hw-accel Changli Gao
2011-05-22 9:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-22 10:17 ` Changli Gao
2011-05-22 10:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 10:40 ` Changli Gao
2011-05-22 13:16 ` Jiri Pirko
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