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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid•com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: daniel@iogearbox•net, tgraf@suug•ch, jiri@resnulli•us,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 2/2] tc: add 'needs_l2' flag to ingress qdisc
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 07:02:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55265C5C.7020200@mojatatu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5526593E.4040608@mojatatu.com>

On 04/09/15 06:49, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 04/08/15 23:05, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> [..]
>> As I said I'd rather disable them attaching to ingress than force
>> all program authors to always use network_offset.
>> Offset 0 points to L2 was always fundamental assumption of BPF.
>
> The issue is not really the ingress qdisc here - rather the ingress
> qdisc tries to cope with _how things work_.
> The challenge is *some netdevs* (not all) strip off the link
> layer _before_ the ingres qdisc sees them. You have to recognize
> those devices and only speacial case with them. Your assumptions of
> blindly pushing/pulling will break  in some cases (take a look at
> mirred).
>

To be precise look at:
tcf_mirred_init() and how ok_push based on dev->type is decided.
So we do this in the slow path and make a simple compare in the
fast path on whether push the l2 header.

cheers,
jamal

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-09 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-08 23:26 [PATCH v3 net-next 1/2] net: introduce skb_postpush_rcsum() helper Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-08 23:26 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 2/2] tc: add 'needs_l2' flag to ingress qdisc Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-09  2:44   ` David Miller
2015-04-09  3:05     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-09  3:14       ` David Miller
2015-04-09  3:39         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-09  5:20           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-09  5:25             ` David Miller
2015-04-09 15:15             ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-09 15:36               ` Eric Dumazet
2015-04-09 17:20                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-09 10:49       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-09 11:02         ` Jamal Hadi Salim [this message]
2015-04-09 15:38         ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-04-10 11:49           ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-09 17:03         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-10 12:48           ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-10 22:35             ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-04-13 14:28               ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-04-13 16:13                 ` Alexei Starovoitov

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