netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: don't call pad

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Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:35:50 -0800
From:   Pravin Shelar <pshelar@....org>
To:     Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        ovs dev <dev@...nvswitch.org>, Joe Stringer <joe@....org>,
        William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: openvswitch: don't call pad_packet if not necessary

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 7:51 AM <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
>
> The nla_put_u16/nla_put_u32 makes sure that
> *attrlen is align. The call tree is that:
>
> nla_put_u16/nla_put_u32
>   -> nla_put            attrlen = sizeof(u16) or sizeof(u32)
>   -> __nla_put          attrlen
>   -> __nla_reserve      attrlen
>   -> skb_put(skb, nla_total_size(attrlen))
>
> nla_total_size returns the total length of attribute
> including padding.
>
> Cc: Joe Stringer <joe@....org>
> Cc: William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@....org>