Re: Increasing skb->mark size

[Luuk Paulussen]

On 11/30/2015 02:58 PM, David Miller wrote:
> If you guys, really anyone, can find a way to remove some other 32-bit 
> item from sk_buff, you can expand skb->mark to 64-bits. But otherwise, 
> I'm going to be strongly against it. sk_buff is already enormous and 
> larger than it should be. So I'm going to resist any change that makes 
> it even larger. Thanks. 
Would the level of objection be the same if this was done as an 
"extended mark" field under a configurable off-by-default option? This 
would allow users who need this functionality to enable it while making 
it clear that this is at the expense of increasing sk_buff size.--
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