netdev - Re: [PATCH] chelsio: add headroom in RX path

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Message-Id: <20130320.132952.1733436957649049289.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:29:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] chelsio: add headroom in RX path

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:33:19 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Drivers should reserve some headroom in skb used in receive path,
> to avoid future head reallocation.
> 
> One possible way to do that is to use dev_alloc_skb() instead
> of alloc_skb(), so that NET_SKB_PAD bytes are reserved.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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