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From: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse•cz>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us•ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse•cz>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse•net>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: bonding: don't increase rx_dropped after processing LACPDUs
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 14:15:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120504121545.GA32665@midget.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1765.1336000239@death.nxdomain>

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:10:39PM -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> 	Won't this make it impossible to bind a PF_PACKET socket to
> sll_protocol == ETH_P_SLOW and see the LACPDUs, but only when bonding is
> running 802.3ad? 

yes it will...

> This because the ptype_all check in
> __netif_receive_skb happens before the rx_handler, but the ptype_base
> check (bound packet socket, for example) happens after.  Currently,
> libpcap looks to bind to ETH_P_ALL, so it won't be affected.

Does it make any sense for the packet socket not to bind to
ETH_P_ALL? With all the rx_handlers interfering with the packet
(e.g. modifying skb->dev, modifying the MAC address), binding to
ETH_P_SLOW will never reliably get you the the original frame
with reliable information about the incoming device. 

> If so, is that something we care about?

I think not.
 

-- 
Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse•cz>
SUSE Labs, SUSE CZ

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-04 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-02 20:23 bonding: don't increase rx_dropped after processing LACPDUs Jiri Bohac
2012-05-02 20:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-02 20:51   ` Jiri Bohac
2012-05-02 23:10     ` Jay Vosburgh
2012-05-04 12:15       ` Jiri Bohac [this message]
2012-05-02 23:41     ` David Miller
2012-05-04 12:16       ` Jiri Bohac
2012-05-04 12:19         ` [PATCH v2] " Jiri Bohac
2012-05-04 13:04           ` Eric Dumazet
2012-05-04 13:28             ` [PATCH v3] " Jiri Bohac
2012-05-04 14:53               ` David Miller

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