From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [PATCH net] geneve: initialize needed_headroom Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:27:23 -0500 Message-ID: <20151223152722.GD20729@tuxdriver.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Pravin B Shelar , Jiri Benc , Jesse Gross , Hannes Frederic Sowa To: Paolo Abeni Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:44270 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751518AbbLWPaa (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:30:30 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 04:21:48PM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote: > Currently the needed_headroom field for the geneve device is left > to the default value. > > This patch set it to space required for basic geneve encapsulation, > so that we can avoid the skb head re-allocation on xmit. > > This give a 6% speedup for unsegment traffic on geneve tunnel. > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni > Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Acked-by: John W. Linville -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.