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Commit 27a884dc authored by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Committed by David S. Miller
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[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_t



So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes
on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the
layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4
64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN...
:-)

Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network,
mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being
meaningful as offsets or pointers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent be8bd863
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