From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>,
Matt Bennett <Matt.Bennett@alliedtelesis.co.nz>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Luuk Paulussen <Luuk.Paulussen@alliedtelesis.co.nz>,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: Increasing skb->mark size
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 21:42:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <565E84D5.5070009@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151202025835.GL15533@two.firstfloor.org>
On 12/1/15 6:58 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> - skb_iff is either skb->dev->iff or 0. so it could be replaced with a
>>> single bit flag for the 0 case.
>>
>> ... and that one wouldn't work on ingress.
>
> Please explain.
skb->dev is dropped fairly early in the Rx path. skb_iif is needed for
example for IP_CMSG_PKTINFO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-02 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-24 20:32 Increasing skb->mark size Matt Bennett
2015-11-24 20:36 ` Florian Westphal
2015-11-24 20:56 ` Matt Bennett
2015-11-26 4:44 ` Luuk Paulussen
2015-11-30 2:08 ` Florian Westphal
2015-11-30 2:10 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2015-11-30 2:24 ` Florian Westphal
2015-11-29 8:37 ` Lorenzo Colitti
2015-11-30 1:58 ` David Miller
2015-11-30 4:10 ` Luuk Paulussen
2015-11-30 4:49 ` David Miller
2015-12-01 0:12 ` Luuk Paulussen
2015-12-01 3:55 ` David Miller
2015-12-01 4:57 ` Luuk Paulussen
2015-12-01 19:13 ` Andi Kleen
2015-12-01 22:09 ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-12-02 2:58 ` Andi Kleen
2015-12-02 5:42 ` David Ahern [this message]
2015-12-02 17:29 ` David Miller
2015-12-02 3:57 ` Lorenzo Colitti
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