packet: doc: add documentation for VLAN TPID delivery
authorAtzm Watanabe <atzm@stratosphere.co.jp>
Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:12:20 +0000 (23:12 +0900)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:01:40 +0000 (00:01 -0500)
Introduce TP_STATUS_VLAN_TPID_VALID bit into the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Atzm Watanabe <atzm@stratosphere.co.jp>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt

index 4288ffa..723bf3d 100644 (file)
@@ -517,8 +517,6 @@ where 'tpacket_version' can be TPACKET_V1 (default), TPACKET_V2, TPACKET_V3.
 TPACKET_V1:
        - Default if not otherwise specified by setsockopt(2)
        - RX_RING, TX_RING available
-       - VLAN metadata information available for packets
-         (TP_STATUS_VLAN_VALID)
 
 TPACKET_V1 --> TPACKET_V2:
        - Made 64 bit clean due to unsigned long usage in TPACKET_V1
@@ -526,6 +524,13 @@ TPACKET_V1 --> TPACKET_V2:
          userspace and the like
        - Timestamp resolution in nanoseconds instead of microseconds
        - RX_RING, TX_RING available
+       - VLAN metadata information available for packets
+         (TP_STATUS_VLAN_VALID, TP_STATUS_VLAN_TPID_VALID),
+         in the tpacket2_hdr structure:
+               - TP_STATUS_VLAN_VALID bit being set into the tp_status field indicates
+                 that the tp_vlan_tci field has valid VLAN TCI value
+               - TP_STATUS_VLAN_TPID_VALID bit being set into the tp_status field
+                 indicates that the tp_vlan_tpid field has valid VLAN TPID value
        - How to switch to TPACKET_V2:
                1. Replace struct tpacket_hdr by struct tpacket2_hdr
                2. Query header len and save