Pktgen receive hook in dev.c?

[Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am curious if there is any interest in adding a hook in the netif_receive_skb
method to allow receiving (and consuming) pktgen packets.  This gives the 
ability
to get some good packet receive & latency stats using pktgen.

I asked this a year or so ago and was told no, but since then the netpoll and
TC_NCLS hooks have been added.... so maybe hooks are OK again?

The hook would look something like:

#if defined(CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN) || defined(CONFIG_NET_PKTGEN_MODULE)
        if ((skb->dev->priv_flags & IFF_PKTGEN_RCV) &&
            (handle_pktgen_rcv(skb) >= 0)) {
                /* Pktgen may consume the packet, no need to send
                 * to further protocols.
                 */
                goto out;
        }
#endif

        type = skb->protocol;
        list_for_each_entry_rcu(ptype, &ptype_base[ntohs(type)&15], list) {
....


Take it easy,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com