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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: chetan loke <loke.chetan@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 01/01]af_packet: Enhance network capture visibility
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:10:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDD8C5E.7040207@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimYVUkUWA2XPix2nUL-=rnQKghZQA@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/25/2011 04:03 PM, chetan loke wrote:
> This patch is not complete and is intended to:
> a) demonstrate the improvments
> b) gather suggestions
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Chetan Loke<lokec@ccs.neu.edu>

> +struct tpacket3_hdr {
> +	__u32		tp_status;
> +	__u32		tp_len;
> +	__u32		tp_snaplen;
> +	__u16		tp_mac;
> +	__u16		tp_net;
> +	__u32		tp_sec;
> +	__u32		tp_nsec;
> +	__u16		tp_vlan_tci;
> +	long		tp_next_offset;
> +};

Use fixed-size variables, like __u64 instead of 'long'.  That way,
you have the same sized msgs on 32 and 64-bit systems.

I didn't look at the rest of it in any detail, so no comment there.

Thanks,
Ben


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-25 23:03 [RFC 01/01]af_packet: Enhance network capture visibility chetan loke
2011-05-25 23:10 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2011-05-25 23:24   ` chetan loke

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