netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] tipc: some optimizations and impovements

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:52:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com,
	erik.hugne@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com, maloy@...jonn.com,
	tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] tipc: some optimizations and impovements

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:27:33 -0400

> The commits in this series contain some relatively simple changes
> that lead to better throughput across TIPC connections. We also make
> changes to the implementation of link transmission queueing and priority
> handling, in order to make the code more comprehensible and maintainable.

I think you should do the SKB linearization changes properly.

Simply do pskb_may_pull() before you inspect any header, and you can
do this everwhere, even your bundling extraction code path.

I also don't think you even need to clone the SKB there either.

Thanks.
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