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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/usbnet: reserve headroom on rx skbs
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:01:03 +0100
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Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
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Am Mittwoch, 14. M=C3=A4rz 2012, 17:56:25 schrieb Eric Dumazet:
> network drivers should reserve some headroom on incoming skbs so that=
 we
> dont need expensive reallocations, eg forwarding packets in tunnels.
>=20
> This NET_SKB_PAD padding is done in various helpers, like
> __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() in this patch, combining NET_SKB_PAD an=
d
> NET_IP_ALIGN magic.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>