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Re: [RFC net-next] ipv6: Use destination address determined by IPVS

To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next] ipv6: Use destination address determined by IPVS
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, lvs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>, Mark Brooks <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:26:15 +0900
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 07:40:59PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 11:13 +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> > That does seem very promising but while implementing it
> > I hit a problem.
> > 
> > struct tcp_skb_cb includes a field of type struct inet6_skb_parm.  And
> > expanding struct inet6_skb_parm by 16 bytes means that struct tcp_skb_cb is
> > now larger than 48 bytes and no longer fits in skb->cb.
> > 
> > Is it appropriate to grow skb->cb as the comment above struct tcp_skb_cb
> > suggests?
> 
> Ah well...
> 
> No, its not appropriate to grow sk_buff by 16 bytes, sorry.
> 
> You could not change struct inet6_skb_parm, but define IP6CB as
> a compound 
> 
> struct ip6cb {
>    struct inet6_skb_parm foo;
>    struct in6_addr       bar;
> };

Thanks for your guidance, that possibility had occured to me too.
I'll rework the patch accordingly.
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