From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:30:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091013103037.475e2400@s6510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD49DFC.9020406@gmail.com>
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:34:20 +0200
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Miller a écrit :
> > From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:11:23 +0200
> >
> >> [PATCH] net: Add netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper
> >>
> >> Instead of hardcoding NET_IP_ALIGN stuff in various network drivers, we can
> >> add a helper around netdev_alloc_skb()
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> >
> > Applied to net-next-2.6
>
> Thanks, here is the followup cleanup patch to use this new helper
>
> [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Use netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align()
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Name_is_getting_too_damn_long can we think of something beter.
Also, it isn't really ip alignment but compensating for the ethernet
header.
alloc_ether_skb?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-13 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-08 2:32 [PATCH] ethoc: use NET_IP_ALIGN in skb_reserve() Thomas Chou
2009-10-08 3:11 ` [PATCH] net: Add netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper Eric Dumazet
2009-10-08 4:36 ` Thomas Chou
2009-10-08 5:40 ` David Miller
2009-10-09 16:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-10 3:43 ` David Miller
2009-10-13 10:45 ` David Miller
2009-10-13 15:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-13 17:30 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-10-13 18:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-13 18:53 ` David Miller
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