netdev - [net-next 1/1] tipc: eliminate unnecessary skb expansion during retransmission

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Message-ID: <1561478893-31371-1-git-send-email-jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:08:13 +0200
From:   Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
To:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <gordan.mihaljevic@...tech.com.au>, <tung.q.nguyen@...tech.com.au>,
        <hoang.h.le@...tech.com.au>, <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
        <canh.d.luu@...tech.com.au>, <ying.xue@...driver.com>,
        <tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [net-next  1/1] tipc: eliminate unnecessary skb expansion during retransmission

We increase the allocated headroom for the buffer copies to be
retransmitted. This eliminates the need for the lower stack levels
(UDP/IP/L2) to expand the headroom in order to add their own headers.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
---
 net/tipc/link.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/link.c b/net/tipc/link.c
index af50b53..aa79bf8 100644
--- a/net/tipc/link.c
+++ b/net/tipc/link.c
@@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ static int tipc_link_bc_retrans(struct tipc_link *l, struct tipc_link *r,
 				continue;
 			TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->nxt_retr = jiffies + TIPC_BC_RETR_LIM;
 		}
-		_skb = __pskb_copy(skb, MIN_H_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		_skb = __pskb_copy(skb, LL_MAX_HEADER + MIN_H_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (!_skb)
 			return 0;
 		hdr = buf_msg(_skb);
-- 
2.1.4