Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753761AbdLUQ7b (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:59:31 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f41.google.com ([209.85.218.41]:42631 "EHLO mail-oi0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753218AbdLUQ7Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:59:25 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBovLkTlRTtRChvxW3nR5mDKail5EqsNep2rsokIm3JNI+pW9AaDUww0nWseIEYn/UySSoglHJIzPh2/wIDtWAVw= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171221122436.GD1930@nanopsycho> References: <20171221091742.8020-1-sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com> <20171221091742.8020-6-sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com> <20171221122436.GD1930@nanopsycho> From: Willem de Bruijn Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:58:44 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] flow_dissector: Parse batman-adv unicast headers To: Jiri Pirko Cc: Sven Eckelmann , b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org, Network Development , Tom Herbert , Jiri Pirko , LKML , Eric Dumazet Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 975 Lines: 25 On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 10:17:42AM CET, sven.eckelmann@openmesh.com wrote: >>The batman-adv unicast packets contain a full layer 2 frame in encapsulated >>form. The flow dissector must therefore be able to parse the batman-adv >>unicast header to reach the layer 2+3 information. >> >> +--------------------+ >> | ip(v6)hdr | >> +--------------------+ >> | inner ethhdr | >> +--------------------+ >> | batadv unicast hdr | >> +--------------------+ >> | outer ethhdr | >> +--------------------+ >> >>The obtained information from the upper layer can then be used by RPS to >>schedule the processing on separate cores. This allows better distribution >>of multiple flows from the same neighbor to different cores. >> >>Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann > > Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn