From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:40:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140410.214023.849284639345029049.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140408172349.GA7147@gondor.apana.org.au>
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 01:23:49 +0800
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:48:40AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>>
>> At least for ARPs, maybe we could inspect the packet and only
>> deliver to interfaces configured with the MAC that is being
>> ARPed for (or ones that are in promisc)?
>
> Yes this would definitely be a great optimisation.
Yes and you can use the direct rather than the workqueue path.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-11 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<20140407075347.GA26461@gondor.apana.org.au>
2014-04-07 7:55 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Add __dev_forward_skb Herbert Xu
2014-04-07 18:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-04-08 7:15 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-08 16:27 ` David Miller
2014-04-07 7:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue Herbert Xu
2014-04-07 14:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-07 14:23 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-08 16:48 ` Ben Greear
2014-04-08 17:23 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-11 1:40 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-04-11 1:59 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-11 2:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-04-11 2:13 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-11 8:45 ` David Laight
2014-04-11 16:11 ` Ben Greear
2014-04-11 16:20 ` Ben Greear
2014-04-11 16:17 ` Ben Greear
2014-04-08 16:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-04-08 17:14 ` Joe Perches
2014-04-09 8:50 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-09 10:10 ` David Laight
2014-04-10 12:59 ` Herbert Xu
2014-04-10 14:50 ` David Laight
2014-04-07 7:53 [0/2] macvlan: Handle broadcasts in " Herbert Xu
2014-04-17 5:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: Add __dev_forward_skb Herbert Xu
2014-04-20 22:19 ` David Miller
2014-04-17 5:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] macvlan: Move broadcasts into a work queue Herbert Xu
2014-04-20 22:20 ` David Miller
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