On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 21:36 +0100, Florian Westphal wrote: > Matt Bennett <matt.benn...@alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote: > > I'm emailing this list for feedback on the feasibility of increasing > > skb->mark or adding a new field for marking. Perhaps this extension > > could be done under a new CONFIG option. Perhaps there are other ways we > > could achieve the desired behaviour? > > Well I pointed you towards connlabels which provide 128 bit of space > in the conntrack extension area but you did not tell me why you cannot > use it. Sorry, I moved the discussion to this list to hopefully gather some new ideas/opinions.
While connlabels provide 128bits of space skb->mark is still only 32 bits. Since we are using connection tracking to simply restore skb->mark the use of connlabels by itself doesn't solve the problem I outlined above. skb->mark would still needs to be increased in size. > -- > 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
