diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c index 0fafc5e0e242f6d3339b6463b2f52498ca1edb47..4c7c59f1a0b28ba04a8efad0e0b54c75cb52b7dd 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/arp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c @@ -319,6 +319,10 @@ static void arp_send_dst(int type, int ptype, __be32 dest_ip, skb->priority = 7; /* For ARP Prioritization */ 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); }