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net/usbnet: reserve headroom on rx skbs

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>
Eric Dumazet 13 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 2
      drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c

+ 2 - 2
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c

@@ -328,13 +328,13 @@ static int rx_submit (struct usbnet *dev, struct urb *urb, gfp_t flags)
 	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;