From: Stephen Hemminger <shemmin...@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:51:22 -0700
> That ensures big enough header for locally generated packets, but
> any drivers that need bigger headroom still must handle bridged packets
> that come in with smaller space. When bridging packets, the skb comes
> from the allocation by the receiving driver. Almost all drivers will
> use dev_alloc_skb() which will allocate NET_SKB_PAD (16) bytes of
> additional headroom. This is used to hold copy of ethernet header for
> the bridge/netfilter code.
>
> So your patch is fine as an optimization but a driver can not safely
> depend on any additional headroom. The driver must check if there
> is space, and if no space is available, reallocate and copy.
We had some plans to deal with this kind of issue for wireless
too. Let me see if I can find the RFC patch from that discussion...
Here it is, similar code would be added to the ipv4/ipv6 forwarding
paths:
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 7c1d446..6c06fba 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -600,6 +600,7 @@ struct net_device
* Cache line mostly used on receive path (including eth_type_trans())
*/
unsigned long last_rx; /* Time of last Rx */
+ unsigned int rx_alloc_extra;
/* Interface address info used in eth_type_trans() */
unsigned char dev_addr[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; /* hw address, (before
bcast
because most packets
are unicast) */
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_forward.c b/net/bridge/br_forward.c
index bdd7c35..531e483 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_forward.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_forward.c
@@ -42,6 +42,22 @@ int br_dev_queue_push_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (nf_bridge_maybe_copy_header(skb))
kfree_skb(skb);
else {
+ unsigned int headroom = skb_headroom(skb);
+ unsigned int hh_len = LL_RESERVED_SPACE(skb->dev);
+
+ if (headroom < hh_len) {
+ struct net_device *in_dev;
+ unsigned int extra;
+
+ in_dev = __dev_get_by_index(dev_net(skb->dev),
+ skb->iif);
+ BUG_ON(!in_dev);
+
+ extra = hh_len - headroom;
+ if (extra >= in_dev->rx_alloc_extra)
+ in_dev->rx_alloc_extra = extra;
+ }
+
skb_push(skb, ETH_HLEN);
dev_queue_xmit(skb);
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 5c459f2..74a2515 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -255,11 +255,12 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
int node = dev->dev.parent ? dev_to_node(dev->dev.parent) : -1;
+ unsigned int extra = dev->rx_alloc_extra + NET_SKB_PAD;
struct sk_buff *skb;
- skb = __alloc_skb(length + NET_SKB_PAD, gfp_mask, 0, node);
+ skb = __alloc_skb(length + extra, gfp_mask, 0, node);
if (likely(skb)) {
- skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD);
+ skb_reserve(skb, extra);
skb->dev = dev;
}
return skb;
diff --git a/net/mac80211/tx.c b/net/mac80211/tx.c
index f35eaea..86f0e36 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
@@ -1562,13 +1562,13 @@ int ieee80211_subif_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
* be cloned. This could happen, e.g., with Linux bridge code passing
* us broadcast frames. */
- if (head_need > 0 || skb_cloned(skb)) {
+ if (head_need > 0 || skb_header_cloned(skb)) {
#if 0
printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: need to reallocate buffer for %d bytes "
"of headroom\n", dev->name, head_need);
#endif
- if (skb_cloned(skb))
+ if (skb_header_cloned(skb))
I802_DEBUG_INC(local->tx_expand_skb_head_cloned);
else
I802_DEBUG_INC(local->tx_expand_skb_head);
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