From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Borkmann Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 2/2] tc: add 'needs_l2' flag to ingress qdisc Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 08:53:48 +0200 Message-ID: <5528C4FC.5020207@iogearbox.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Thomas Graf , Jiri Pirko , Jamal Hadi Salim , netdev To: Cong Wang , Alexei Starovoitov Return-path: Received: from www62.your-server.de ([213.133.104.62]:47218 "EHLO www62.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752176AbbDKGx7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2015 02:53:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/11/2015 02:45 AM, Cong Wang wrote: ... > The problem you try to solve is kernel's implementation problem, > users should not care, so we should make some effort to make ingress > align with egress, rather than making more differences. I guess you've followed the previous discussion up to this point, and are aware that we cannot break some users f.e. such as u32. There has been thought put into this and we went back and forth, if you have a better suggestion on how to get it resolved properly and generically, I'm all for it.