Re: Intel and TOE in the news

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>]

* Andi Kleen <20050221115006.GB87576@xxxxxx> 2005-02-21 12:50
> The main problem is that someone has to go through all the protocol layers
> and make sure they can process lists. Also it needs careful handling
> in netfilter.

Special handling is also required for the ingress qdisc. The classifiers
or tc_classify() must be changed to iterate over the lists and unlink
the skbs if one of them is to be dropped. The mirred action must probably
split the list after cloning the skbs. Given the lists are session based
all session based qdiscs could benefit from this and enqueue/dequeue the
lists rather than single skbs. Other qdiscs would have to split the lists
but could return a new list upon dequeue.