Re: [PATCH net-next V3 00/17] hv_netvsc: Eliminate the additional head room

2015-12-01 Thread David Miller
From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:42:58 -0800 > In an attempt to avoid having to allocate memory on the send path, the netvsc > driver was requesting additional head room so that both rndis header and the > netvsc packet (the state that had to persist) could be placed in the skb.

[PATCH net-next V3 00/17] hv_netvsc: Eliminate the additional head room

2015-12-01 Thread K. Y. Srinivasan
In an attempt to avoid having to allocate memory on the send path, the netvsc driver was requesting additional head room so that both rndis header and the netvsc packet (the state that had to persist) could be placed in the skb. Since the amount of head room requested was exceeding the default head