Re: vlan_skb_recv

[Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Anderson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> To help increase throughput and bypass the backlog queue, I changed the
> netif_rx() to netif_receive_skb() in vlan_skb_recv().  What's the
> argument for using netif_rx() other than legacy maintenance?  At this
> point, interrupt context should not be an issue.  Layer 2 performance
> has been a big focus in my area of development.
>
> I'm sure you have seen many attempts to implement a single VLAN aware
> IVL FDB in the past and I was wondering which attempt do you feel was
> the best?  Have you ever considered integrating your VLAN support
> natively into the bridging code base or know of any attempts to do just
> that?
>   
Patrick would be a better person to ask.  Please use netdev mailing list 
in the future
as well, as we are closing this list in a few days.

Thanks,
Ben

> Thanks,
> smanders
>
>
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