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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus•ca>
To: "Timo Teräs" <timo.teras@iki•fi>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor•apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] SPD basic actions per netdev
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:34:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270125256.26743.195.camel@bigi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB48D1C.80205@iki.fi>

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 15:10 +0300, Timo Teräs wrote:

> On entry to ip_forward the routing decision has already been made.
> Both oif and iif are valid on entry.

ah, ok - yes;->

> Currently policy_check() uses oif for SPD matching.

indeed it does.

So i can see the dilemma with fwd path. It would be nice
to be able to classify on both iif and oif.

So that leaves only IN direction. If i only worried about that
and use skb->skb_iif then at least i wont be breaking the semantics
for FWD/OUT (i.e the patch without check for FWD). 

That would make semantics for selector ifindex as follows:
table    current    patch
----------------------------
OUT       fl->oif   fl->oif
FWD       fl->oif   fl->oif
IN        N/A       skb->skb_iif

By "N/A" it means really you cant set it. If you do it doesnt work.

cheers,
jamal





      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-01 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 16:37 [RFC] SPD basic actions per netdev jamal
2010-03-31 22:58 ` jamal
2010-04-01  0:33 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-01  2:35   ` jamal
2010-04-01  2:52     ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-01  4:52       ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-01  6:01         ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-01  6:20           ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-01  6:28             ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-01  6:32               ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-01  6:39                 ` Herbert Xu
2010-04-01 11:29                   ` jamal
2010-04-01 11:47                     ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-01 12:00                       ` jamal
2010-04-01 12:10                         ` Timo Teräs
2010-04-01 12:34                           ` jamal [this message]

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