Thread (33 messages) flat view 33 messages, 8 authors, 2016-06-22

Re: [PATCH net-next 13/18] net: Add offload kernel net stack packet type

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: 2016-06-17 15:12:16

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Saeed Mahameed [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Maor Gottlieb <redacted>

Add new packet type to skip kernel specific protocol handlers.

This is needed so device drivers can pass packets up to user space
(af_packet/tcpdump, etc..) without the need for them to go through
the whole kernel data path.

Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <redacted>
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Patrick McHardy <redacted>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <redacted>
This breaks BPF quite badly.

git grep SKF_AD_PKTTYPE
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