linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net v2] veth: xdp: use head instead of hard

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Date:   Fri, 3 Apr 2020 14:12:54 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>
Cc:     Toshiaki Makita <toshiaki.makita1@...il.com>,
        Mao Wenan <maowenan@...wei.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>, jwi@...ux.ibm.com,
        jianglidong3@...com, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] veth: xdp: use head instead of hard_start

On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 12:59 AM Jesper Dangaard Brouer
<brouer@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> I want to wait to ease your life as maintainer. This is part of a
> larger patchset (for XDP frame_sz) and the next patch touch same code
> path and thus depend on these code adjustments.  If we apply them in
> bpf vs bpf-next then you/we will have to handle merge conflicts.  The
> severity of the "fix" is really low, it only means 32 bytes less
> headroom (which I doubt anyone is using).

Ahh. Make sense. That type of fix can wait.
Thanks!