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Optimization #4805

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af-packet: move vlan hdr insert logic to capture/decode

Added by Victor Julien over 2 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

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In af-packet we get the vlan header from the kernel as meta data, while the raw data doesn't contain the (first) vlan header. In IPS mode we reconstruct it in AFPWritePacket just before we push the packet back out on to the wire.

This leads to fairly complex code in AFPWritePacket for the "autofp" case, with a lock that is being held as the raw data is updated.

An additional issue with doing this only while sending the packet is that during logging the vlan header is missing from the raw log output.

The packet could probably be updated just after packet decoding is complete. This makes sure don't decode the header we just added, but makes the header available to logging. It would also mean we don't need to update data from a different thread (in autofp), so we can reconsider the locking logic.

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Updated by Victor Julien over 2 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Assignee set to Victor Julien
  • Target version set to 7.0.0-beta1
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