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Matthias Schiffer a163dc22d5 batman-adv: always assume 2-byte packet alignment
NIC drivers generally try to ensure that the "network header" is aligned
to a 4-byte boundary. This is not always possible: When Ethernet frames are
encapsulated in other packets with 4-byte aligned headers, the inner
Ethernet header will have 4-byte alignment, and in consequence, the inner
network header is aligned to 2, but not to 4 bytes.

Most parts of batman-adv only care about 2-byte alignment; in particular,
no unaligned accesses occur in performance-critical paths that handle
actual payload data. This is not true for OGM handling: the seqno and crc
fields are accessed as 32-bit values. To avoid these unaligned accesses,
this patch reduces the expected packet alignment to 2 bytes for all of
batadv's packet types.

As no unaligned accesses existed on the performance-critical paths anyways,
this chance does have any (positive or negative) effect on performance, but
it still makes sense to avoid these accesses to prevent log noise when
examining other unaligned accesses in the kernel while batman-adv is
active.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2018-02-27 13:02:54 +01:00
arch unify {de,}mangle_poll(), get rid of kernel-side POLL... 2018-02-11 14:37:22 -08:00
block vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
certs
crypto vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
Documentation KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
drivers vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
firmware
fs vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
include batman-adv: always assume 2-byte packet alignment 2018-02-27 13:02:54 +01:00
init membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE 2018-02-05 21:35:03 +01:00
ipc vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
kernel vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
lib Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
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mm vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
net batman-adv: Avoid relation operator comparison with bool 2018-02-27 13:02:36 +01:00
samples sample/bpf: fix erspan metadata 2018-02-06 11:32:49 -05:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
security vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
sound vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-02-09 15:34:18 -08:00
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