Re: Reducing the overhead on the network core
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2005-03-29 01:14:36
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2005-03-29 01:14:36
We already do this and set the skb->packet_type field to PACKET_HOST, PACKET_BROADCAST, PACKET_MULTICAST etc. And the input paths test these values. We still have to pass the packet into netif_rx() to deal with network taps that want to see packets that are not destined for us in any way.