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authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>2014-12-09 19:40:49 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-12-10 13:31:57 -0500
commitfd11a83dd3630ec6a60f8a702446532c5c7e1991 (patch)
tree4ab4c6966cfbd5ff9bb437592cf6e59c4ef6859d /include/linux/skbuff.h
parentffde7328a36d16e626bae8468571858d71cd010b (diff)
net: Pull out core bits of __netdev_alloc_skb and add __napi_alloc_skb
This change pulls the core functionality out of __netdev_alloc_skb and places them in a new function named __alloc_rx_skb. The reason for doing this is to make these bits accessible to a new function __napi_alloc_skb. In addition __alloc_rx_skb now has a new flags value that is used to determine which page frag pool to allocate from. If the SKB_ALLOC_NAPI flag is set then the NAPI pool is used. The advantage of this is that we do not have to use local_irq_save/restore when accessing the NAPI pool from NAPI context. In my test setup I saw at least 11ns of savings using the napi_alloc_skb function versus the netdev_alloc_skb function, most of this being due to the fact that we didn't have to call local_irq_save/restore. The main use case for napi_alloc_skb would be for things such as copybreak or page fragment based receive paths where an skb is allocated after the data has been received instead of before. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/skbuff.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 736cc99f3f6c..85ab7d72b54c 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ struct net_device;
struct scatterlist;
struct pipe_inode_info;
struct iov_iter;
+struct napi_struct;
#if defined(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK) || defined(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_MODULE)
struct nf_conntrack {
@@ -673,6 +674,7 @@ struct sk_buff {
#define SKB_ALLOC_FCLONE 0x01
#define SKB_ALLOC_RX 0x02
+#define SKB_ALLOC_NAPI 0x04
/* Returns true if the skb was allocated from PFMEMALLOC reserves */
static inline bool skb_pfmemalloc(const struct sk_buff *skb)
@@ -2165,6 +2167,13 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(struct net_device *dev,
}
void *napi_alloc_frag(unsigned int fragsz);
+struct sk_buff *__napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct *napi,
+ unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+static inline struct sk_buff *napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct *napi,
+ unsigned int length)
+{
+ return __napi_alloc_skb(napi, length, GFP_ATOMIC);
+}
/**
* __dev_alloc_pages - allocate page for network Rx