[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH V3 RFC 2/2] ixgbe: ixgbe_atr() compute l4_proto only if non-paged data has network/transport headers

Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com
Mon Oct 17 22:37:51 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 15:29 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Sowmini Varadhan
> <sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > For some Tx paths (e.g., tpacket_snd()), ixgbe_atr may be
> > passed down an sk_buff that has the network and transport
> > header in the paged data, so it needs to make sure these
> > headers are available in the headlen bytes to calculate the
> > l4_proto.
> > 
> > This patch expect that network and transport headers are
> > already available in the non-paged header dat.  The assumption
> > is that the caller has set this up if l4_proto based Tx
> > steering is desired.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com>
> 
> This all looks correct to me.  I would recommend having Jeff pull it
> in to be submitted to the net queue.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck at intel.com>

Sowmini, can you re-submit this to intel-wired-lan but without the RFC in
the title?
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