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author | Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com> | 2014-11-05 11:50:22 +0100 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-11-06 20:40:18 +0100 |
commit | 7e5d7753956b374516530e156c5e8aa19652398d (patch) | |
tree | 536746bc7043795210b9dd9fd4588dfcf2c37f5f /drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.h | |
parent | Merge branch 'stmmac-next' (diff) | |
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xen-netback: remove unconditional __pskb_pull_tail() in guest Tx path
Unconditionally pulling 128 bytes into the linear area is not required
for:
- security: Every protocol demux starts with pskb_may_pull() to pull
frag data into the linear area, if necessary, before looking at
headers.
- performance: Netback has already grant copied up-to 128 bytes from
the first slot of a packet into the linear area. The first slot
normally contain all the IPv4/IPv6 and TCP/UDP headers.
The unconditional pull would often copy frag data unnecessarily. This
is a performance problem when running on a version of Xen where grant
unmap avoids TLB flushes for pages which are not accessed. TLB
flushes can now be avoided for > 99% of unmaps (it was 0% before).
Grant unmap TLB flush avoidance will be available in a future version
of Xen (probably 4.6).
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Crossley <malcolm.crossley@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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