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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2012-04-30 12:10:34 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-05-01 05:35:49 +0400
commitd7e8883cfcf4851afe74fb380cc62b7fa9cf66ba (patch)
tree1b513349c4f1c7edf7991de2016b3a2ed1083deb /include/linux/skbuff.h
parent8d4057a938481351dc690fbe23e8c72af08d5890 (diff)
downloadlinux-d7e8883cfcf4851afe74fb380cc62b7fa9cf66ba.tar.xz
net: make GRO aware of skb->head_frag
GRO can check if skb to be merged has its skb->head mapped to a page fragment, instead of a kmalloc() area. We 'upgrade' skb->head as a fragment in itself This avoids the frag_list fallback, and permits to build true GRO skb (one sk_buff and up to 16 fragments), using less memory. This reduces number of cache misses when user makes its copy, since a single sk_buff is fetched. This is a followup of patch "net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment" Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 9d28a22a8554..2c75e98953b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ static inline struct rtable *skb_rtable(const struct sk_buff *skb)
extern void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern void consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern void __kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
+extern struct kmem_cache *skbuff_head_cache;
extern struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int size,
gfp_t priority, int fclone, int node);
extern struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size);