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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: haiyangz@microsoft.com, vkuznets@redhat.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kys@microsoft.com, jasowang@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:59:36 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150916.105936.2275139635170756984.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D1CB9800B@AcuExch.aculab.com>

From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:25:03 +0000

> Am I right in thinking this is adding an extra 96 unused bytes to the front
> of almost all skb just so that hyper-v can make its link level header
> contiguous with whatever follows (IP header ?).
> 
> Doesn't sound ideal.

Agreed, this is rediculous, and the entire stack will incur this cost
just because hyperv is enabled in the kernel config.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-16 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-16 15:50 [PATCH net-next RFC] net: increase LL_MAX_HEADER for Hyper-V Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-09-16 16:08 ` Haiyang Zhang
2015-09-16 16:25   ` David Laight
2015-09-16 17:26     ` Alexander Duyck
2015-09-16 17:55     ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-16 21:38       ` Alexander Duyck
2015-09-16 22:57         ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-16 23:48           ` Alexander Duyck
2015-09-16 23:58             ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-17  8:38           ` David Laight
2015-09-17 15:14             ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-17 18:52               ` David Miller
2015-09-17 19:52                 ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-17 20:10                   ` David Miller
2015-09-17 21:16                     ` KY Srinivasan
2015-09-16 17:59     ` David Miller [this message]
2015-09-17  9:03       ` Vitaly Kuznetsov

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