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From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:01:06 -0700

> Since MAX_TCP_HEADER starts at 160 the likelihood of it not getting
> at least 16 bytes of padding is pretty low.

I know it's not on many people's radar, but with SLOB it will happen
a lot probably.