netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v3 4/6] udp: Partially unroll handling of first segment and last segment

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Date:   Mon, 7 May 2018 11:27:01 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, willemb@...gle.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 4/6] udp: Partially unroll handling of first
 segment and last segment



On 05/07/2018 11:08 AM, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> 
> This patch allows us to take care of unrolling the first segment and the
> last segment of the loop for processing the segmented skb. Part of the
> motivation for this is that it makes it easier to process the fact that the
> first fame and all of the frames in between should be mostly identical
> in terms of header data, and the last frame has differences in the length
> and partial checksum.
> 
> In addition I am dropping the header length calculation since we don't
> really need it for anything but the last frame and it can be easily
> obtained by just pulling the data_len and offset of tail from the transport
> header.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>