From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com>
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>,
Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] flow_dissector: Parse batman-adv unicast headers
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:24:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171221122436.GD1930@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171221091742.8020-6-sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com>
Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:17:42AM CET, sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com wrote:
>The batman-adv unicast packets contain a full layer 2 frame in encapsulated
>form. The flow dissector must therefore be able to parse the batman-adv
>unicast header to reach the layer 2+3 information.
>
> +--------------------+
> | ip(v6)hdr |
> +--------------------+
> | inner ethhdr |
> +--------------------+
> | batadv unicast hdr |
> +--------------------+
> | outer ethhdr |
> +--------------------+
>
>The obtained information from the upper layer can then be used by RPS to
>schedule the processing on separate cores. This allows better distribution
>of multiple flows from the same neighbor to different cores.
>
>Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-21 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-21 9:17 [PATCH v4 0/5] flow_dissector: Provide basic batman-adv unicast handling Sven Eckelmann
[not found] ` <20171221091742.8020-1-sven.eckelmann-lv6y7wLVQPlWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2017-12-21 9:17 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] batman-adv: Let packet.h include its headers directly Sven Eckelmann
2017-12-21 9:17 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] batman-adv: Convert packet.h to uapi header Sven Eckelmann
2017-12-21 9:17 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] batman-adv: Remove usage of BIT(x) in packet.h Sven Eckelmann
2017-12-21 9:17 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] batman-adv: Remove kernel fixed width types " Sven Eckelmann
2017-12-21 9:17 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] flow_dissector: Parse batman-adv unicast headers Sven Eckelmann
2017-12-21 12:24 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2017-12-21 16:58 ` Willem de Bruijn
2017-12-21 20:40 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] flow_dissector: Provide basic batman-adv unicast handling David Miller
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