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bridge: Avoid unnecessary clone on forward path
authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:41:41 +0000 (19:41 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:48:43 +0000 (00:48 -0800)
commitb33084be192ee1e347d98bb5c9e38a53d98d35e2
tree940c62309437ca5fa087275bc64b4ffd677c79c3tree | snapshot
parent68b7c895be336b19f4c38d7cb500132fabba0afdcommit | diff
bridge: Avoid unnecessary clone on forward path

When the packet is delivered to the local bridge device we may
end up cloning it unnecessarily if no bridge port can receive
the packet in br_flood.

This patch avoids this by moving the skb_clone into br_flood.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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net/bridge/br_input.c diff | blob | history
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