diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c index 8cae791a7acedb02a4265e0edac1e9eceb71a985..3a393c508a6226d1b07c8198337b3ab20b02116d 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/arp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c @@ -318,6 +318,10 @@ static void arp_send_dst(int type, int ptype, __be32 dest_ip, return; skb_dst_set(skb, dst_clone(dst)); + /* Set the ARP requests generated by CPU to the highest priority since it fails to do this + * from the user space utilities. In order to make this work on Intel platform, a queue with + * "--priority 1 --map 1" must be created. */ + skb->priority = 7; arp_xmit(skb); }