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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Gross <jesse@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] vxlan: implement GPE
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 18:38:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160316183810.43eb3f3b@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALx6S37n=4-VUTOx7cZuAaVOFa4=wtGgd7iBwAk8pMNmpt_vcA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:31:10 -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
> Sorry, I still don't like this. For VXLAN-GPE packets the above two
> conditionals are a complete waste of time and I shouldn't have to go
> pawing through configuration to determine what protocol has actually
> be implemented.  Please, at least move these into the else block of
> "if (vs->flags & VXLAN_F_GPE) {" above. This saves two conditionals in
> the data path, makes the parsing code more readable, and you don't
> need to reference configuration to figure things out.

As I already wrote, this is not possible. GPE parsing needs to occur
before iptunnel_pull_header (because we need to know the protocol), GBP
parsing needs to happen after it (after udp_tun_rx_dst specifically).

Believe me, I would do it that way if it was possible.

I also considered splitting rx path for GPE and non-GPE case and the
result was much uglier and longer code.

 Jiri

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-16 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-16 16:51 [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] vxlan: implement Generic Protocol Extension (GPE) Jiri Benc
2016-03-16 16:51 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] vxlan: move Ethernet initialization to a separate function Jiri Benc
2016-03-16 16:51 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] vxlan: move fdb code to common location in vxlan_xmit Jiri Benc
2016-03-16 16:51 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] ip_tunnel: implement __iptunnel_pull_header Jiri Benc
2016-03-16 16:51 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] vxlan: implement GPE Jiri Benc
2016-03-16 17:31   ` Tom Herbert
2016-03-16 17:38     ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2016-03-17  3:35 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] vxlan: implement Generic Protocol Extension (GPE) David Miller

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