From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/27] Allow passing of VLAN CFI bit through network stack Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:32:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20170103.163217.697324652959765171.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:52342 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758787AbdACVdf (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:33:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Michaİİ Mirosİİaw Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:52:33 +0100 (CET) > Dear NetDevs > > This series removes an abuse of VLAN CFI bit in Linux networking stack. > Currently Linux always clears the bit on outgoing traffic and presents > it cleared to userspace (even via AF_PACKET/tcpdump when hw-accelerated). > > This uses a new vlan_present bit in struct skbuff, and removes an assumption > that vlan_proto != 0 when VLAN tag is present. > > As I can't test most of the driver changes, please look at them carefully. > > The series is supposed to be bisect-friendly and that requires temporary > insertion of #define VLAN_TAG_PRESENT in BPF code to be able to split > JIT changes per architecture. > > Best Regards, > Michaİİ Mirosİİaw > > v2: rebase onto net-next This patch series is really way too large. You're going to have to find a way to combine related changes, or submit this as a series of logical sets, one at a time. Thanks.