netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 13/13] mlx4: remove duplicate code in mlx4_en_process_rx

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Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:58:00 +0200
From:   Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 13/13] mlx4: remove duplicate code in
 mlx4_en_process_rx_cq()



On 08/03/2017 6:17 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> We should keep one way to build skbs, regardless of GRO being on or off.
>
> Note that I made sure to defer as much as possible the point we need to
> pull data from the frame, so that future prefetch() we might add
> are more effective.
>
> These skb attributes derive from the CQE or ring :
>  ip_summed, csum
>  hash
>  vlan offload
>  hwtstamps
>  queue_mapping
>
> As a bonus, this patch removes mlx4 dependency on eth_get_headlen()
> which is very often broken enough to give us headaches.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 209 ++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...lanox.com>

Thanks.