netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: tcp: consistently use MAX_TCP

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Message-ID: <13bf5bbc-caa2-dc16-57f8-966efe1ef337@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:47:38 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: tcp: consistently use MAX_TCP_HEADER

On 2/21/22 8:11 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> All other skbs allocated for TCP tx are using MAX_TCP_HEADER already.
> 
> MAX_HEADER can be too small for some cases (like eBPF based encapsulation),
> so this can avoid extra pskb_expand_head() in lower stacks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>