netdev - Re: [patch 4/6] ctnetlink: allocate right-sized ctnetlink skb

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Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:46:39 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Holger Eitzenberger <holger@...zenberger.org>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ctnetlink: allocate right-sized ctnetlink skb

Holger Eitzenberger wrote:
> Try to allocate a Netlink skb roughly the size of the actual
> message, with the help from the l3 and l4 protocol helpers.
> This is all to prevent a reallocation in netlink_trim() later.
> 
> The overhead of allocating the right-sized skb is rather small, with
> ctnetlink_alloc_skb() actually being inlined away on my x86_64 box.
> The size of the per-proto space is determined at registration time of
> the protocol helper.

This one clashes with Florian's changes to get rid of
nf_ct_l4proto_find_get(). I've pushed out the patches I've
already applied, please rediff the remaining ones against
my current tree. Thanks.
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