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network drivers should reserve some headroom on incoming skbs so that we
dont need expensive reallocations, eg forwarding packets in tunnels.

This NET_SKB_PAD padding is done in various helpers, like
__netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() in this patch, combining NET_SKB_PAD and
NET_IP_ALIGN magic.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>