3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 617c8c11236716dcbda877e764b7bf37c6fd8063 ] At the beginning of __skb_cow, headroom gets set to a minimum of NET_SKB_PAD. This causes unnecessary reallocations if the buffer was not cloned and the headroom is just below NET_SKB_PAD, but still more than the amount requested by the caller. This was showing up frequently in my tests on VLAN tx, where vlan_insert_tag calls skb_cow_head(skb, VLAN_HLEN). Locally generated packets should have enough headroom, and for forward paths, we already have NET_SKB_PAD bytes of headroom, so we don't need to add any extra space here. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- include/linux/skbuff.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index e689b47..bdb4590 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -1866,8 +1866,6 @@ static inline int __skb_cow(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int headroom, { int delta = 0; - if (headroom < NET_SKB_PAD) - headroom = NET_SKB_PAD; if (headroom > skb_headroom(skb)) delta = headroom - skb_headroom(skb); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
