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

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Date:	Wed, 23 Dec 2015 16:39:36 +0100
From:	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] geneve: initialize needed_headroom

On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 16:35 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On 23.12.2015 16:21, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > @@ -1187,6 +1187,14 @@ static int geneve_configure(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev,
> >  	if (t)
> >  		return -EBUSY;
> >  
> > +	/* make enough headroom for basic scenario */
> > +	encap_len = GENEVE_BASE_HLEN + ETH_HLEN;
> > +	if (remote->sa.sa_family == AF_INET)
> > +		encap_len += sizeof(struct iphdr);
> > +	else
> > +		encap_len += sizeof(struct ipv6hdr);
> > +	dev->needed_headroom = encap_len;
> > +
> 
> We are missing one time ETH_HLEN or hard_header_len of the lower_dev (if
> available) in here AFAIK.

You are right. Most probably performance numbers where good even with
the missing ETH_HLEN due to some rounding. I'll send a v2.

Paolo

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