netdev - Re: [PATCH]: fix lro_gen

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:59:48 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	gallatin@...i.com (Andrew Gallatin)
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, ossthema@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: fix lro_gen_skb() alignment

Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@...i.com> wrote:
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_lro.c b/net/ipv4/inet_lro.c
> index ac3b1d3..91e9371 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/inet_lro.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/inet_lro.c
> @@ -401,10 +401,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *lro_gen_skb(struc
>        int data_len = len;
>        int hdr_len = min(len, hlen);
> 
> -       skb = netdev_alloc_skb(lro_mgr->dev, hlen);
> +       skb = netdev_alloc_skb(lro_mgr->dev, hlen + NET_IP_ALIGN);

NET_IP_ALIGN should only be used if you're DMAing into the skb head.
Otherwise you should say 2.  It would be nice to have another macro
for that I suppose.

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