From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leit...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:58:35 -0300
> Because otherwise when crc computation is still needed it's way more > expensive than on a linear buffer to the point that it affects > performance. > > It's so expensive that netperf test gives a perf output as below: ... > Fixes: 3acb50c18d8d ("sctp: delay as much as possible skb_linearize") > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leit...@gmail.com> Applied and queued up for -stable.