Re: [PATCH] bonding: Fix corrupted queue_mapping

From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:11:21 +0200

On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 23:02 -0700, David Miller wrote:

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Hmmm, isn't that what qdisc_skb_cb is for?  And even private data is
explicitly allocated:

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 	unsigned char		data[24];

there. :-)

Yes, but some other layers can use the same trick so it might collide.

Inserting the bond field in qdisc_skb_cb (level0) is safer.

Do you suggest that Infiniband does the same thing? :-)