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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2008-05-12 23:48:31 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-05-12 23:48:31 -0400
commitf5184d267c1aedb9b7a8cc44e08ff6b8d382c3b5 (patch)
tree5ccce7558f9e1e53e5b189d6e2fe62a667988ac8 /include/linux/netdevice.h
parent8388e3da34edb141362bb42811ee487dfec15525 (diff)
net: Allow netdevices to specify needed head/tailroom
This patch adds needed_headroom/needed_tailroom members to struct net_device and updates many places that allocate sbks to use them. Not all of them can be converted though, and I'm sure I missed some (I mostly grepped for LL_RESERVED_SPACE) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index a3fb57fde623..b11e6e19e96c 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -246,11 +246,16 @@ struct hh_cache
246 * 246 *
247 * We could use other alignment values, but we must maintain the 247 * We could use other alignment values, but we must maintain the
248 * relationship HH alignment <= LL alignment. 248 * relationship HH alignment <= LL alignment.
249 *
250 * LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE also takes into account the tailroom the device
251 * may need.
249 */ 252 */
250#define LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) \ 253#define LL_RESERVED_SPACE(dev) \
251 (((dev)->hard_header_len&~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + HH_DATA_MOD) 254 ((((dev)->hard_header_len+(dev)->needed_headroom)&~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + HH_DATA_MOD)
252#define LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EXTRA(dev,extra) \ 255#define LL_RESERVED_SPACE_EXTRA(dev,extra) \
253 ((((dev)->hard_header_len+extra)&~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + HH_DATA_MOD) 256 ((((dev)->hard_header_len+(dev)->needed_headroom+(extra))&~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + HH_DATA_MOD)
257#define LL_ALLOCATED_SPACE(dev) \
258 ((((dev)->hard_header_len+(dev)->needed_headroom+(dev)->needed_tailroom)&~(HH_DATA_MOD - 1)) + HH_DATA_MOD)
254 259
255struct header_ops { 260struct header_ops {
256 int (*create) (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, 261 int (*create) (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
@@ -569,6 +574,13 @@ struct net_device
569 unsigned short type; /* interface hardware type */ 574 unsigned short type; /* interface hardware type */
570 unsigned short hard_header_len; /* hardware hdr length */ 575 unsigned short hard_header_len; /* hardware hdr length */
571 576
577 /* extra head- and tailroom the hardware may need, but not in all cases
578 * can this be guaranteed, especially tailroom. Some cases also use
579 * LL_MAX_HEADER instead to allocate the skb.
580 */
581 unsigned short needed_headroom;
582 unsigned short needed_tailroom;
583
572 struct net_device *master; /* Pointer to master device of a group, 584 struct net_device *master; /* Pointer to master device of a group,
573 * which this device is member of. 585 * which this device is member of.
574 */ 586 */