network drivers should reserve some headroom on incoming skbs so that we
dont need expensive reallocations, eg forwarding packets in tunnels.
This NET_SKB_PAD padding is done in various helpers, like
__netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() in this patch, combining NET_SKB_PAD and
NET_IP_ALIGN magic.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
unsigned long lockflags;
size_t size = dev->rx_urb_size;
- if ((skb = alloc_skb (size + NET_IP_ALIGN, flags)) == NULL) {
+ skb = __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(dev->net, size, flags);
+ if (!skb) {
netif_dbg(dev, rx_err, dev->net, "no rx skb\n");
usbnet_defer_kevent (dev, EVENT_RX_MEMORY);
usb_free_urb (urb);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- skb_reserve (skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
entry = (struct skb_data *) skb->cb;
entry->urb = urb;