Subject: Re: patch: Action repeat

From: jamal <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 09:33:20 -0400

On Wed, 2005-04-05 at 15:28 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> * jamal <[email-masked]> 2005-05-04 08:59
> > On Wed, 2005-04-05 at 14:31 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > > * jamal <[email-masked]> 2005-05-04 07:46
> > 
> > > > tc_verd to say "clear tc_classid" and have the meta action decide if it
> > > > is global(dont clear) or not(clear - current behavior) during
> > > > clone/copy . Does this sound reasonable?
> > > 
> > > I have no objections but fail to see why we want to clear it anyway?
> > > 
> > 
> > If its scope is local i.e for one device, then not reseting could
> > confuse the next device that sees it and tries to classify on it.
> 
> OK, so we're not talking about a reset in action_exec() but rather
> in tc_classify() or enqueue()?

in skb_clone() and friends.
Look at CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT in net/core/skbuff.c

cheers,
jamal