Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/27] Allow passing of VLAN CFI bit through network stack

2017-01-03 Thread Michał Mirosław
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 04:32:17PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Michał Mirosław > Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:52:33 +0100 (CET) > > > Dear NetDevs > > > > This series removes an abuse of VLAN CFI bit in Linux networking stack. > > Currently Linux always clears the bit on outgoing traffic and

Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/27] Allow passing of VLAN CFI bit through network stack

2017-01-03 Thread Michał Mirosław
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 12:21:51AM +0100, Michał Mirosław wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 04:32:17PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > > From: Michał Mirosław > > Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:52:33 +0100 (CET) > > > > > Dear NetDevs > > > > > > This series removes an abuse of VLAN CFI bit in Linux netw

Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/27] Allow passing of VLAN CFI bit through network stack

2017-01-03 Thread Michał Mirosław
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 04:32:17PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Michał Mirosław > Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:52:33 +0100 (CET) > > > Dear NetDevs > > > > This series removes an abuse of VLAN CFI bit in Linux networking stack. > > Currently Linux always clears the bit on outgoing traffic and

Re: [PATCH net-next v2 00/27] Allow passing of VLAN CFI bit through network stack

2017-01-03 Thread David Miller
From: Michał Mirosław Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 21:52:33 +0100 (CET) > Dear NetDevs > > This series removes an abuse of VLAN CFI bit in Linux networking stack. > Currently Linux always clears the bit on outgoing traffic and presents > it cleared to userspace (even via AF_PACKET/tcpdump when hw-acce

[PATCH net-next v2 00/27] Allow passing of VLAN CFI bit through network stack

2017-01-03 Thread Michał Mirosław
Dear NetDevs This series removes an abuse of VLAN CFI bit in Linux networking stack. Currently Linux always clears the bit on outgoing traffic and presents it cleared to userspace (even via AF_PACKET/tcpdump when hw-accelerated). This uses a new vlan_present bit in struct skbuff, and removes an a