linux-kernel - Re: [0/6] Replace LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE to allow needed

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Message-Id: <20111118.150157.1046683437153798989.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:01:57 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, evonlanthen@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	timo.teras@....fi
Subject: Re: [0/6] Replace LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE to allow needed_headroom
 adjustment

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:18:32 +0800

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:12:04PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:54:25 +0200
>> 
>> > So I'm going to get rid of LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE completely and
>> > replace it with explicit references to the tailroom as it doesn't
>> > need the alignment anyway (The headroom needs alignment since
>> > we use it to ensure the head is aligned).
>> 
>> Ok.
> 
> Here are the patches that do this.  I also picked up one spot
> that should have used LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE but did not (see 2nd
> last patch).

This all looks good to me, applied to net-next, thanks!
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