netdev - Re: [PATCH net] geneve: initialize needed

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Date:	Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:27:23 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>, Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] geneve: initialize needed_headroom

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 04:21:48PM +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> Currently the needed_headroom field for the geneve device is left
> to the default value.
> 
> This patch set it to space required for basic geneve encapsulation,
> so that we can avoid the skb head re-allocation on xmit.
> 
> This give a 6% speedup for unsegment traffic on geneve tunnel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>

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