From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] add likely/unlikely to pskb_may_pull Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:53:19 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030730165319.4354d484.davem@redhat.com> References: <20030730161854.3cb03258.shemminger@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20030730161854.3cb03258.shemminger@osdl.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:18:54 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Code that deals with received headers needs to be robust and use pskb_may_pull in many > places, but except in the case of DOS attacks, the packets are always correctly formed > so optimize for that case. Applied, thanks Stephen.