Re: [PATCH] tcpdump may trace some outbound packets twice.

From: Patrick McHardy
Date: Mon May 15 2006 - 21:17:31 EST


Herbert Xu wrote:
> David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

That should actually be pretty easy.
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