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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skbuff: Add new tc classify variable
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:58:41 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120207.135841.1753473725075272902.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328639948-25232-1-git-send-email-siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>

From: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date: Tue,  7 Feb 2012 19:39:08 +0100

> The linux traffic control mechanism has different ways to select the
> correct class of a qdisc. A common way to do this is to use tc filters
> that are directly attached to a qdisc. Another approach is to use the
> iptables classify module. The latter one can reduce the amount of work
> necessary to process a packet when iptables is already involved in the
> packet classification.

Do not bloat up sk_buff any more.  Add this, and the other existing
tc_* members to the qdisc SKB control block instead.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-07 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07 18:39 [PATCH] skbuff: Add new tc classify variable Simon Wunderlich
2012-02-07 18:58 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-02-07 20:16   ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-02-07 20:33     ` Dave Taht
2012-02-08  9:21     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-08 14:48       ` jamal
2012-02-07 19:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-07 19:57   ` Simon Wunderlich
2012-02-07 21:45     ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-08  8:54       ` Florian Westphal

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