[ovs-git] Open vSwitch: gre: Improve headroom calculation to reducing copying. (master)

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commit 7e7d587d68a22aa47745d5acadd9790d1a34934f
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Author: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
		
gre: Improve headroom calculation to reducing copying.
		
The first change is use skb_header_cloned() instead of (skb_cloned()
 && skb_clone_writable()).  While these are effectively the same
checks, skb_clone_writable() does not exist until 2.6.23 and relies
on information not available in earlier kernels and therefore the
compat version always returns false.  Since GRE only adds data to
the front of the packet and this is on the transmit path (meaning
there is no important data in the SKB head) it is safe to use
skb_header_cloned().  This avoids a copy for locally generated
TCP packets on the affected kernels.

The second change is to always allocate 64 bytes of headroom when
a copy needs to be made.  There is no cost to allocating extra
space once we have decided to make a copy and can avoid another
copy later if we need to add a VLAN tag.


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Summary of changes:
 datapath/vport-gre.c |    5 ++---
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


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