Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:24:00 +0200

Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote:
>>Another question is what to do about other hard_start_xmit callers.
>>Independant of which field is used, should the classification 
>>that may have happend on a different device be retained (TC 
>>actions again)?
> 
> 
> [...] Either way, before it gets enqueued through
> dev_queue_xmit(), the value will get cleared, so having an artifact
> laying around won't be possible.

You're right, I was thinking of a case where a packet would
be redirected from a multiqueue device to another one and
then not go through dev_queue_xmit but some other path to
hard_start_xmit that doesn't update the classification.
But there is no case like this.