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Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V

From David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V
Date 2015-09-17 21:00 +0200
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From: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:14:05 +0000

> I think I can achieve my original goal of not having any allocation
> in the send path by carefully using the memory available in the skb:

Please stop flat-out ignoring David L.'s suggestion.

Have a pre-cooked ring of buffers for these descriptors that you can
point the chip at.  No per-packet allocation is necessary at all.

If you play games with SKBs you will get burned.
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[PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2015-09-16 18:00 +0200
  RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-16 18:10 +0200
    RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2015-09-16 18:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 19:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-09-16 20:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> - 2015-09-17 11:10 +0200
      RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-16 20:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 23:40 +0200
          RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-17 01:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 01:50 +0200
              RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-17 02:00 +0200
            RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> - 2015-09-17 10:40 +0200
              RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-17 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-09-17 21:00 +0200
                RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-17 22:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-09-17 22:20 +0200
                RE: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2015-09-17 23:20 +0200

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