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authorIdo Yariv <ido@wizery.com>2014-07-29 16:39:14 +0400
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-08-26 13:16:00 +0400
commitc70f59a2a007c57843195a93c3b7308204e0a5ab (patch)
treedb9426d7dbadd28f97c006b6426ac1e3cbca880c /net/wireless
parentca34e3b5c808385b175650605faa29e71e91991b (diff)
downloadlinux-c70f59a2a007c57843195a93c3b7308204e0a5ab.tar.xz
mac80211: don't resize skbs needlessly
Header-less cloned skbs with sufficient headroom need not be cloned unless the tailroom is going to be modified. Fix ieee80211_skb_resize so it would only resize cloned skbs if either the header isn't released or the tailroom is going to be modified. Some drivers might have assumed that skbs are never cloned, so add a HW flag that explicitly permits cloned TX skbs. Drivers which do not modify TX skbs should set this flag to avoid copying skbs. Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <idox.yariv@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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