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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] chelsio: add headroom in RX path
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:29:52 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:33:19 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> 
> Drivers should reserve some headroom in skb used in receive path,
> to avoid future head reallocation.
> 
> One possible way to do that is to use dev_alloc_skb() instead
> of alloc_skb(), so that NET_SKB_PAD bytes are reserved.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.