Re: vlan_skb_recv
Ben Greear <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:32:22 -0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vlan |
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| Organization | Candela Technologies |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Vlan mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.candelatech.com/mailman/listinfo/vlan > -- Ben Greear <[email protected]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com