From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 14:56:06 +0200
> Per Davem's request, I prepared this patchset which introduces programmable > flow dissector. For current users of flow_keys, there is a wrapper > skb_flow_dissect_flow_keys which maintains the previous behaviour. > For purposes of cls_flower, couple of new dissection keys were introduced. > > Note that this dissector can be also eventually used by openvswitch code. > > Also, as a next step, I plan to get rid of *skb_flow_get_ports(export) > and *__skb_get_poff as their functionality can be now implemented by > skb_flow_dissect as well. > > v2->v3: > - remove TCA_FLOWER_POLICE attr suggested by Jamal > > v1->v2: > - move __skb_tx_hash rather to dev.c as suggested by Alex Ok, assuming this passes all of my build tests, I'll push this into net-next. I'm sure there will be some performance improvements possible, and I hope you will look into making sure this new programmable classifier is as light weight as possible. Anyways, thanks a lot. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
