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Message-ID: <1361388156.19353.216.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:22:36 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Cc:	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	"e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Wu, Fengguang" <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [next:akpm 16/587]
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c:6231:2: error: call to
 '__compiletime_assert_6235' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG_ON
 failed: SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(IGB_RX_BUFSZ) < (NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN +
 IGB_TS_HDR_LEN + ETH...

On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 10:16 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:

> 
> The problem is the 256 byte alignment for L1_CACHE_BYTES is increasing
> the size of the data and shared info significantly pushing us past the
> 2K limit.
> 
> I'll look into this since it likely affects ixgbe as well.

Thats what I said.

Using 256 bytes of headroom is silly.

We should limit NET_SKB_PAD to the 32-64 range


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