[PATCH net-next V3 00/17] hv_netvsc: Eliminate the additional head room

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Dec 2 02:54:10 UTC 2015


From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys at microsoft.com>
Date: Tue,  1 Dec 2015 16:42:58 -0800

> In an attempt to avoid having to allocate memory on the send path, the netvsc
> driver was requesting additional head room so that both rndis header and the
> netvsc packet (the state that had to persist) could be placed in the skb.
> Since the amount of head room requested was exceeding the default head room
> as set in LL_MAX_HEADER, we were forcing a reallocation of skb.
> 
> With this patch-set, I have reduced the size of the netvsc packet to less
> than 20 bytes and with this reduction we don't need to ask for any additional
> headroom. We place the rndis header in the skb head room and we place the
> netvsc packet in control buffer area in the skb.
> 
> V2:  - Addressed  review comments:
>      - Eliminated more fields from netvsc packet structure.
> 
> V3:  - Fixed a typo in patch: hv_netvsc: Don't ask for additional head room in the skb.

Series applied, thanks.


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