netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] tipc: Optimize handling excess content on incoming messages

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Message-Id: <20100909.213344.212697811.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:33:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, allan.stephens@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/4] tipc: Optimize handling excess content on
 incoming messages

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 19:31:24 -0400

> Subject: [PATCH] tipc: Optimize handling excess content on incoming messages
> 
> Remove code that trimmed excess trailing info from incoming messages
> arriving over an Ethernet interface.  TIPC now ignores the extra info
> while the message is being processed by the node, and only trims it off
> if the message is retransmitted to another node.  (This latter step is
> done to ensure the extra info doesn't cause the sk_buff to exceed the
> outgoing interface's MTU limit.) The outgoing buffer is guaranteed to
> be linear.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

Applied, thanks.
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