Re: patch: Action repeat

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>]

* jamal <1115214782.7665.184.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2005-05-04 09:53
> On Wed, 2005-04-05 at 15:48 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > * jamal <1115213600.7665.166.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2005-05-04 09:33
> 
> > > in skb_clone() and friends.
> > > Look at CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT in net/core/skbuff.c
> > 
> > Yes this solves the case for dummy devices etc but how would
> > this cause a reset on the way from ingress to egress?
> 
> If the verdict is not to reset, there should be no clearing of those
> fields from ingress -> egress until the skb is either freed or someone
> else along the path resets it. Cloning or copying inherits. Am i missing
> something?

I guess not but we might have a different understanding of when to
reset. From my point of view the only reason to reset any meta data
is to provide a certain scope a set of new fresh and clean sheets
to play around. Assuming we define global as everything and local
as per device/(ingress|egress) then we definitely need to invoke
a reset on the way over to egress.