YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@ wrote:
> In article <438270F2.3000603@trash.net> (at Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:14:26 +0100), Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> says:
> 
> 
>>The easiest way would be to store nhoff somewhere in the skb and
>>use it to continue at the next header. But I still hope there is
>>a way without keeping data in the skb.
> 
> 
> We've coded up this.

How about this patch instead? It eliminates the nhoffp argument
to IPv6 protocol handlers by storing it in the IP6CB, which allows
to call ip6_input_finish a second time and have it skip already
parsed headers and also gets rid of the manual hopopts skipping.

> Though we have still another issue (call chain issue) to resolve,
> we're getting closer to the goal.
> i.e. we should continue the loop for common case.

I'll look into this now.