netdev - Re: changing dev->needed_headroom/needed

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Message-ID: <1377015897.13829.16.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:24:57 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: changing dev->needed_headroom/needed_tailroom?

On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 09:20 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> All code must check for needed headroom first, and copy packet
> if space is not available. Since excess headroom is always safe,
> most devices just always use the same worst case headroom.
> 
> Even with your changes this will still be necessary since packets will
> be still in flight while features change.

I agree, it will always be necessary. I guess the question boils down to
whether/what N bytes headroom more or less actually make a difference.

The wireless stack currently sets needed_headroom to 34 or so I think,
but I will need to increase by 8 which was why I had this question to
start with. However, those 34 are an absolute worst case - in most cases
it's much less...

So I suppose the other question we should ask is will increasing from
~34 to ~42 make a significant different that it's worth thinking about
avoiding it in the common cases at all?

johannes

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