On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:26:01 -0800 (PST) "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 16:19:42 -0800 > > > Also, isn't a lot of the problem reduced if network devices > > are affinitied? > > Not for routing/firewalling, we touch the destination device's > counters on input softing of the source device. IMHO converting skb->dev to skb->devindex and using ifindex sounds best. It gets rid of the need to refcount as much but keeps the safety from buggy protocols. Ipv6 could probably use ifindex as well. -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
