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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolae Rosia <nicolae.rosia@certsign.ro>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, 'Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: macb: replace literal constant with NET_IP_ALIGN
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 10:06:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1435770389.12101.110.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435748191.4110.127.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On Wed, 2015-07-01 at 12:56 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 20:25 +0300, Nicolae Rosia wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
[]
> > @@ -2554,9 +2554,9 @@ static void at91ether_rx(struct net_device *dev)
> >  	while (lp->rx_ring[lp->rx_tail].addr & MACB_BIT(RX_USED)) {
> >  		p_recv = lp->rx_buffers + lp->rx_tail * AT91ETHER_MAX_RBUFF_SZ;
> >  		pktlen = MACB_BF(RX_FRMLEN, lp->rx_ring[lp->rx_tail].ctrl);
> > -		skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, pktlen + 2);
> > +		skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, pktlen + NET_IP_ALIGN);
> >  		if (skb) {
> > -			skb_reserve(skb, 2);
> > +			skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
> >  			memcpy(skb_put(skb, pktlen), p_recv, pktlen);
> >  
> >  			skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, dev);
> 
> Then please use netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(), so that you get rid of
> skb_reserve()

It seems there are ~50 of these in the kernel tree
that could be converted.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-01 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-30 17:25 [PATCH net-next] net: macb: replace literal constant with NET_IP_ALIGN Nicolae Rosia
2015-07-01 10:03 ` Nicolas Ferre
2015-07-01 10:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-01 13:29   ` Nicolae Rosia
2015-07-01 13:44     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-01 14:29       ` Nicolae Rosia
2015-07-01 15:33         ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-01 15:53           ` Nicolae Rosia
2015-07-01 16:19             ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-01 17:06   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-07-01 22:13     ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-01 23:00       ` Joe Perches
2015-07-03 16:18       ` David Laight
2015-07-03 16:39         ` Eric Dumazet
2015-07-06  8:54           ` David Laight

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