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| author | Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com> | 2014-06-12 00:36:26 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-06-12 00:38:02 +0200 |
| commit | bad93e9d4eeb0d2d6b79204d6cedc7f2e7b256f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 816931467196e2a89ac47919bfb2b2fc45969209 /net/core | |
| parent | Merge branch 'bridge-next' (diff) | |
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net: add __pskb_copy_fclone and pskb_copy_for_clone
There are several instances where a pskb_copy or __pskb_copy is
immediately followed by an skb_clone.
Add a couple of new functions to allow the copy skb to be allocated
from the fclone cache and thus speed up subsequent skb_clone calls.
Cc: Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Cc: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>
Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@alten.se>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@openbossa.org>
Cc: Aloisio Almeida Jr <aloisio.almeida@openbossa.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Cc: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Cc: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/skbuff.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 05f4bef2ce12..b9e85e6cb26a 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -951,10 +951,13 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_copy(const struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask) EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_copy); /** - * __pskb_copy - create copy of an sk_buff with private head. + * __pskb_copy_fclone - create copy of an sk_buff with private head. * @skb: buffer to copy * @headroom: headroom of new skb * @gfp_mask: allocation priority + * @fclone: if true allocate the copy of the skb from the fclone + * cache instead of the head cache; it is recommended to set this + * to true for the cases where the copy will likely be cloned * * Make a copy of both an &sk_buff and part of its data, located * in header. Fragmented data remain shared. This is used when @@ -964,11 +967,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(skb_copy); * The returned buffer has a reference count of 1. */ -struct sk_buff *__pskb_copy(struct sk_buff *skb, int headroom, gfp_t gfp_mask) +struct sk_buff *__pskb_copy_fclone(struct sk_buff *skb, int headroom, + gfp_t gfp_mask, bool fclone) { unsigned int size = skb_headlen(skb) + headroom; - struct sk_buff *n = __alloc_skb(size, gfp_mask, - skb_alloc_rx_flag(skb), NUMA_NO_NODE); + int flags = skb_alloc_rx_flag(skb) | (fclone ? SKB_ALLOC_FCLONE : 0); + struct sk_buff *n = __alloc_skb(size, gfp_mask, flags, NUMA_NO_NODE); if (!n) goto out; @@ -1008,7 +1012,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__pskb_copy(struct sk_buff *skb, int headroom, gfp_t gfp_mask) out: return n; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pskb_copy); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pskb_copy_fclone); /** * pskb_expand_head - reallocate header of &sk_buff |