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From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Ben Greear" <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	"David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Jiri Pirko" <jpirko@redhat.com>,
	"Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
	kaber@trash.net, fubar@us.ibm.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	andy@greyhouse.net, "Jesse Gross" <jesse@nicira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] vlan: Do not support clearing VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 08:38:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinXFYzzj3R97mKH-90xM64BDwN8aA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1wrhigy37.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>
>> Many years ago we supported the REORDER, but we suggested disabling
>> it for most users because it was a performance drag.  Funny that now
>> it seems to be the opposite!
>
> Yes it is funny.  I looked in history a while back and what I saw was
> that REORDER was always enabled by default and it took some serious
> effort to figure out how to get vconfig to disable REORDER. ip doesn't
> admit that REORDER can be disabled at all.
>

Really?

Quoted from the manual page of vconfig
       set_flag [vlan-device] 0 | 1
              When  1,  ethernet  header  reorders  are turned on. Dumping the
              device will appear as a common ethernet  device  without  vlans.
              When  0(default)  however,  ethernet  headers are not reordered,
              which results in vlan tagged packets when  dumping  the  device.
              Usually the default gives no problems, but some packet filtering
              programs might have problems with it.

reordered is disabled by default. I also concern the performance.
Untag and then tag are expensive for the NICs which don't support
hw-accel-vlan-rx/tx.

-- 
Regards,
Changli Gao(xiaosuo@gmail.com)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-08  5:48 [patch net-next-2.6 v2] net: vlan: make non-hw-accel rx path similar to hw-accel Jiri Pirko
2011-04-12 21:16 ` David Miller
2011-05-21  1:11   ` Changli Gao
2011-05-21  7:29     ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-21 10:43       ` Changli Gao
2011-05-21 13:17         ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-21 17:54           ` Jesse Gross
2011-05-21 22:15             ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-22  2:59             ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-22  6:29               ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-22  6:34                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22  8:34                   ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-22  8:52                     ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-22  9:10                       ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-22  9:20                         ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-22  9:36                           ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-22  9:53                             ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-22 10:04                               ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-22 16:11                   ` Jesse Gross
2011-05-22 18:24                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 19:33                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 19:39                     ` [PATCH 1/3] vlan: Do not support clearing VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 19:40                       ` [PATCH 2/3] vlan: Always strip the vlan header in vlan_untag Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 19:42                         ` [PATCH 3/3] vlan: Simplify the code now that VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR is always set Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-09 10:59                           ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-12  6:17                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 21:04                       ` [PATCH 1/3] vlan: Do not support clearing VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR Ben Greear
2011-05-22 22:38                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23  0:38                           ` Changli Gao [this message]
2011-05-23  1:26                             ` Changli Gao
2011-05-23  1:45                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23  2:14                                 ` Changli Gao
2011-05-23  9:41                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 10:43                                     ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-23 19:48                                       ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-24  5:58                                         ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-24  7:19                                           ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-23  1:39                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23  6:01                           ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23  9:00                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 16:33                               ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 19:36                                 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-23 20:24                                   ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 21:00                                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-23 21:20                                       ` David Miller
2011-05-23 22:05                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 22:16                                           ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-23 22:48                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-23 22:23                                           ` Ben Greear
2011-05-23 23:02                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-24  4:20                                               ` Ben Greear
2011-05-24  7:11                                                 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-05-24  7:44                                                   ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-24 15:17                                                   ` Ben Greear
2011-05-24  5:19                                           ` David Miller
2011-05-24  7:56                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-24 15:44                                             ` Ben Greear
2011-05-24  0:11                                         ` [PATCH] vlan: Fix the b0rked ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-24  4:54                                           ` David Miller
2011-05-24  6:18                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-24  6:24                                               ` David Miller
2011-05-24  7:38                                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-02  3:59                                                   ` David Miller
2011-06-02 13:03                                                     ` [PATCH] vlan: Fix the ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check v2 Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-02 13:15                                                       ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-02 14:54                                                       ` Changli Gao
2011-06-02 15:26                                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-02 23:18                                                           ` Changli Gao
2011-06-06 14:48                                                           ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-03  3:34                                                       ` padmanabh ratnakar
2011-06-03  3:59                                                         ` Changli Gao
2011-06-05 21:14                                                           ` David Miller
2011-06-10  8:35                                                             ` [PATCH v3] vlan: Fix the ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check Jiri Pirko
2011-06-10  9:26                                                               ` Changli Gao
2011-06-10  9:34                                                                 ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-10  9:49                                                                   ` Changli Gao
2011-06-10 10:35                                                                     ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-10 11:20                                                                       ` Changli Gao
2011-06-10 12:12                                                                         ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-10 16:56                                                                         ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-11  0:05                                                                           ` Changli Gao
2011-06-11 23:16                                                                             ` David Miller
2011-06-08 16:28                                                       ` [PATCH] vlan: Fix the ingress VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR check v2 Jiri Pirko
2011-06-08 23:08                                                         ` Changli Gao
2011-06-09  6:01                                                           ` Jiri Pirko
2011-06-09 11:00                       ` [PATCH 1/3] vlan: Do not support clearing VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR Jiri Pirko
2011-05-22  8:38                 ` [patch net-next-2.6 v2] net: vlan: make non-hw-accel rx path similar to hw-accel Changli Gao
2011-05-22  9:37                   ` Jiri Pirko
2011-05-22 10:17                     ` Changli Gao
2011-05-22 10:26                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-05-22 10:40                         ` Changli Gao
2011-05-22 13:16                       ` Jiri Pirko

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