From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jbenc@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
hannes@stressinduktion.org, aduyck@mirantis.com,
daniel@iogearbox.net, pabeni@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/vxlan: Avoid unaligned access in vxlan_build_skb()
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:30:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160922213010.GA32052@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160922.015242.735026657310158125.davem@davemloft.net>
On (09/22/16 01:52), David Miller wrote:
> Alternatively we can do Alexander Duyck's trick, by pushing
> the headers into the frag list, forcing a pull and realignment
> by the next protocol layer.
What is the "Alexander Duyck trick" (hints about module or commit id,
where this can be found, please)?
Is this basically about, e.g., putting the vxlanhdr in its own
skb_frag_t, or something else?
--Sowmini
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-22 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-20 14:27 [PATCH net-next] net/vxlan: Avoid unaligned access in vxlan_build_skb() Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-20 15:31 ` Tom Herbert
2016-09-20 15:49 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-20 16:11 ` Jiri Benc
2016-09-20 16:31 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-20 16:43 ` Jiri Benc
2016-09-20 17:07 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-20 17:15 ` Jiri Benc
2016-09-20 17:09 ` Jiri Benc
2016-09-20 17:19 ` Tom Herbert
2016-09-20 17:24 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-22 5:52 ` David Miller
2016-09-22 21:30 ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2016-09-23 12:06 ` David Miller
2016-09-23 14:17 ` Alexander Duyck
2016-09-23 17:20 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-23 17:38 ` Alexander Duyck
2016-09-23 23:41 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-24 0:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2016-09-28 17:03 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-28 18:08 ` Alexander Duyck
2016-09-28 19:56 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2016-09-20 16:45 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
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