Tell upper layer protocols to allocate skb with additional headroom. This avoids allocation and copy in local packet sends. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c 2012-10-09 10:49:08.238763697 -0700 +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c 2012-10-09 10:49:19.830648777 -0700 @@ -977,6 +977,7 @@ static void vxlan_setup(struct net_devic eth_hw_addr_random(dev); ether_setup(dev); + dev->hard_header_len = ETH_HLEN + VXLAN_HEADROOM; dev->netdev_ops = &vxlan_netdev_ops; dev->destructor = vxlan_free; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html