Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Xmit Packet Steering (XPS)

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:53:54 +0100

Eric Dumazet wrote, On 11/20/2009 12:46 AM:

> Here is first version of XPS.
> 
> Goal of XPS is to free TX completed skbs by the cpu that submitted the transmit.
> 
> Because I chose to union skb->iif with skb->sending_cpu, I chose
> to introduce a new xps_consume_skb(skb), and not generalize consume_skb() itself.

...

> diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> index 63f4742..e8e4795 100644
> --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
> +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> @@ -366,7 +366,10 @@ struct sk_buff {
>  	struct nf_bridge_info	*nf_bridge;
>  #endif
>  
> -	int			iif;
> +	union {
> +		int		iif;
> +		int		sending_cpu;
> +	};

...

> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 9977288..9e134f6 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -1965,6 +1965,7 @@ int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb)
>  	struct netdev_queue *txq;
>  	struct Qdisc *q;
>  	int rc = -ENOMEM;
> +	int cpu;
>  
>  	/* GSO will handle the following emulations directly. */
>  	if (netif_needs_gso(dev, skb))
> @@ -2000,6 +2001,7 @@ gso:
>  	 */
>  	rcu_read_lock_bh();
>  
> +	skb->sending_cpu = cpu = smp_processor_id();

There is one more problem: this will break things like act_mirred + ifb,
and other cases using skb->iif e.g. for filtering on virtual devices at
the xmit path.

Jarek P.