On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:09:45 +0100 Julian Wiedmann wrote: > From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de> > > The size of struct th_header is 8 byte and the size of struct th_sweep > is 16 byte. The memory for is allocated, initialized, used and > deallocated a few lines later. > > It is more efficient to avoid the allocation/free dance and assign the > values directly to skb's data part instead of using memcpy() for it. > > Avoid an allocation of struct th_sweep/th_header and use the resulting > skb pointer instead. > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de> > [jwi: use skb_put_zero(), instead of skb_put() + memset to 0] > Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <j...@linux.ibm.com>
Stuff like that is usually done when skb data cannot be assumed to be aligned. I don't see where the skbs are allocated here, so fingers crossed :)
