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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC ipsec-next 2/2] xfrm: Add a device independent napi
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 07:59:39 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 07:10:22AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 06:26 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Alternative would be to use a 
> > 
> > static struct net_device xfrm_napi_anchor_device;
> > 
> > and use gro_cell
> 
> Also take a look at init_dummy_netdev()

I already thought about using some dummy net_device for this,
but was not sure what I need to initialize. So it seemed
to be safer to use a private napi instance.

init_dummy_netdev() is exactly what I need for that, thanks a lot!