netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: align MTU to a word

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Message-ID: <20160318223346.GC3387@mrl.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:33:46 -0300
From:	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: align MTU to a word

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 03:09:34PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 18:39 -0300, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> 
> > -		transport->pathmtu = dst_mtu(transport->dst);
> > +		transport->pathmtu = dst_mtu(transport->dst) & ~3;
> 
> 
> Well, surely a helper doing this would be better than spreading & ~3 all
> over the places ;)

Heh.. agreed
for this and the other patch too, will post a v2
Thanks