From 689be43945e9ca7dd704522e55af1b8a73a994d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:25:31 -0700 Subject: [NET]: Remove gratuitous use of skb->tail in network drivers. Many drivers use skb->tail unnecessarily. In these situations, the code roughly looks like: dev = dev_alloc_skb(...); [optional] skb_reserve(skb, ...); ... skb->tail ... But even if the skb_reserve() happens, skb->data equals skb->tail. So it doesn't make any sense to use anything other than skb->data in these cases. Another case was the s2io.c driver directly mucking with the skb->data and skb->tail pointers. It really just wanted to do an skb_reserve(), so that's what the code was changed to do instead. Another reason I'm making this change as it allows some SKB cleanups I have planned simpler to merge. In those cleanups, skb->head, skb->tail, and skb->end pointers are removed, and replaced with skb->head_room and skb->tail_room integers. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/s2io.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/s2io.c') diff --git a/drivers/net/s2io.c b/drivers/net/s2io.c index bb639a8794d..ea638b162d3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/s2io.c +++ b/drivers/net/s2io.c @@ -1699,11 +1699,9 @@ static int fill_rx_buffers(struct s2io_nic *nic, int ring_no) #else ba = &nic->ba[ring_no][block_no][off]; skb_reserve(skb, BUF0_LEN); - tmp = (unsigned long) skb->data; - tmp += ALIGN_SIZE; - tmp &= ~ALIGN_SIZE; - skb->data = (void *) tmp; - skb->tail = (void *) tmp; + tmp = ((unsigned long) skb->data & ALIGN_SIZE); + if (tmp) + skb_reserve(skb, (ALIGN_SIZE + 1) - tmp); memset(rxdp, 0, sizeof(RxD_t)); rxdp->Buffer2_ptr = pci_map_single -- cgit v1.2.3