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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] about "net: orphan frags on receive" insanity
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:22:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130626192202.GB10713@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372273764.3301.200.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:09:24PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 21:56 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > Well we don't want to duplicate the whole RX path
> > to special-case that, right?
> 
> 
> Whats wrong using a helper ?
> 
> I_Should_cleanup_things(skb)
> {
> 	... // cleanup for these special users trying to reenter stack
> 
> 	netif_rx(skb);
> }
> 

The point is we don't know the final destination of the packet
until it's going through the stack.

We don't want to trigger a copy for all data we get from tun:
we only want to do this if the data has a chance to get
queued somewhere indefinitely.


-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-26 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-26  8:23 [RFC] about "net: orphan frags on receive" insanity Eric Dumazet
2013-06-26  9:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-26 10:12   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-26 18:56     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-06-26 19:09       ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-26 19:22         ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2013-06-26 19:44           ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-27  7:09             ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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