diff options
| author | Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> | 2016-02-08 13:15:04 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-02-11 17:59:09 +0100 |
| commit | 15fad714be86eab13e7568fecaf475b2a9730d3e (patch) | |
| tree | 08fa26b84fab14cb2a58b3a01599ffd513d28ba9 /net/core/dev.c | |
| parent | net: bulk free infrastructure for NAPI context, use napi_consume_skb (diff) | |
| download | linux-15fad714be86eab13e7568fecaf475b2a9730d3e.tar.xz linux-15fad714be86eab13e7568fecaf475b2a9730d3e.zip | |
net: bulk free SKBs that were delay free'ed due to IRQ context
The network stack defers SKBs free, in-case free happens in IRQ or
when IRQs are disabled. This happens in __dev_kfree_skb_irq() that
writes SKBs that were free'ed during IRQ to the softirq completion
queue (softnet_data.completion_queue).
These SKBs are naturally delayed, and cleaned up during NET_TX_SOFTIRQ
in function net_tx_action(). Take advantage of this a use the skb
defer and flush API, as we are already in softirq context.
For modern drivers this rarely happens. Although most drivers do call
dev_kfree_skb_any(), which detects the situation and calls
__dev_kfree_skb_irq() when needed. This due to netpoll can call from
IRQ context.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 9b2c7a999e71..3f4071a84a03 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -3829,8 +3829,14 @@ static void net_tx_action(struct softirq_action *h) trace_consume_skb(skb); else trace_kfree_skb(skb, net_tx_action); - __kfree_skb(skb); + + if (skb->fclone != SKB_FCLONE_UNAVAILABLE) + __kfree_skb(skb); + else + __kfree_skb_defer(skb); } + + __kfree_skb_flush(); } if (sd->output_queue) { |