Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 May 2006 03:17:59 +0200 | From | Patrick McHardy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tcpdump may trace some outbound packets twice. |
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Herbert Xu wrote: > David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > >>Other implementation possibility suggestions welcome :-) > > > I see two possibilities: > > 1) Move the af_packet hook into the NIC driver. > 2) Rethink the lockless tx setup. If all NICs followed the tg3 and > replaced spin_lock_irqsave with spin_lock then we should be able > to go back to just using the xmit_lock.
3) Clone the skb and have dev_queue_xmit_nit() consume it.
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