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    openvswitch: Add packet len info to upcall. · b95e5928
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     ("openvswitch: Add packet truncation support.")
    introduces packet truncation before sending to userspace upcall receiver.
    This patch passes up the skb->len before truncation so that the upcall
    receiver knows the original packet size. Potentially this will be used
    by sFlow, where OVS translates sFlow config header=N to a sample action,
    truncating packet to N byte in kernel datapath. Thus, only N bytes instead
    of full-packet size is copied from kernel to userspace, saving the
    kernel-to-userspace bandwidth.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWilliam Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>
    Cc: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarPravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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