On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 12:35 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> A comment in include/linux/skbuff.h says that:
> 
>  * Various parts of the networking layer expect at least 32 bytes of
>  * headroom, you should not reduce this.
> 
> This was demonstrated by a panic when handling fragmented IPv6 packets:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=144236093519172&w=2
> 
> It's not entirely clear if that comment is still valid — and if it is,
> perhaps netif_rx() ought to be enforcing it with a warning.
> 
> But either way, it is rather stupid from a performance point of view
> for us to be receiving packets into a buffer which doesn't have enough
> room to prepend an Ethernet header — it means that *every* incoming
> packet is going to be need to be reallocated. So let's fix that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodho...@intel.com>
> ---

LGTM

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>


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