Subject: Re: RFC: on [ab]use of skb->cb by VLAN code

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:30:19 -0700

David Miller wrote:
> From: jamal <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:02:04 -0400
>
>   
>> I came across the issue because i used cb in batching to store transient
>> state which is used between qdisc dequeueing and hardware enqueueing
>> (looked and smelled legit to me).
>>     
>
> Right, dequeue->device should be OK and doesn't work because of
> the VLAN issue.
>   

So, shall we add a new field to the skb in order to get the info out of cb?

Looks like a single 32-bit field would be sufficient.

Thanks,
Ben

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