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From: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron•com.tw>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, thierry.reding@avionic-design•de,
	Nios2 development list <nios2-dev@sopc•et.ntust.edu.tw>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:36:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACD6C69.7040206@wytron.com.tw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ACD585B.5080106@gmail.com>

On 10/08/2009 11:11 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Thomas Chou a écrit :
> You should do :
>
> size -= 4; /* strip the CRC */
> skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, size + NET_IP_ALIGN);
> if (skb) {
> 	skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
> 	...
> }
>
>
> Please check other implementations...
>
> David, maybe we should add following helper :
>
> [PATCH] net: Add netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the suggestion. I will follow your commit and send revised patch.

- Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-08  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-08  2:32 [PATCH] ethoc: use NET_IP_ALIGN in skb_reserve() Thomas Chou
2009-10-08  3:11 ` [PATCH] net: Add netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper Eric Dumazet
2009-10-08  4:36   ` Thomas Chou [this message]
2009-10-08  5:40   ` David Miller
2009-10-09 16:31     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-10  3:43       ` David Miller
2009-10-13 10:45   ` David Miller
2009-10-13 15:34     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-13 17:30       ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-10-13 18:06         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-13 18:53       ` David Miller

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