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

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Message-ID: <1458338974.31963.15.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:09:34 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...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, 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 ;)