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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2012-04-10 20:30:48 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-04-11 10:11:12 -0400
commita21d45726acacc963d8baddf74607d9b74e2b723 (patch)
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parent87151b8689d890dfb495081f7be9b9e257f7a2df (diff)
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tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx path
Marc Merlin reported many order-1 allocations failures in TX path on its wireless setup, that dont make any sense with MTU=1500 network, and non SG capable hardware. After investigation, it turns out TCP uses sk_stream_alloc_skb() and used as a convention skb_tailroom(skb) to know how many bytes of data payload could be put in this skb (for non SG capable devices) Note : these skb used kmalloc-4096 (MTU=1500 + MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct skb_shared_info) being above 2048) Later, mac80211 layer need to add some bytes at the tail of skb (IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM = 18 bytes) and since no more tailroom is available has to call pskb_expand_head() and request order-1 allocations. This patch changes sk_stream_alloc_skb() so that only sk->sk_prot->max_header bytes of headroom are reserved, and use a new skb field, avail_size to hold the data payload limit. This way, order-0 allocations done by TCP stack can leave more than 2 KB of tailroom and no more allocation is performed in mac80211 layer (or any layer needing some tailroom) avail_size is unioned with mark/dropcount, since mark will be set later in IP stack for output packets. Therefore, skb size is unchanged. Reported-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> Tested-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/skbuff.h13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 33370271b8b2..70a3f8d49118 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -481,6 +481,7 @@ struct sk_buff {
union {
__u32 mark;
__u32 dropcount;
+ __u32 avail_size;
};
sk_buff_data_t transport_header;
@@ -1366,6 +1367,18 @@ static inline int skb_tailroom(const struct sk_buff *skb)
}
/**
+ * skb_availroom - bytes at buffer end
+ * @skb: buffer to check
+ *
+ * Return the number of bytes of free space at the tail of an sk_buff
+ * allocated by sk_stream_alloc()
+ */
+static inline int skb_availroom(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ return skb_is_nonlinear(skb) ? 0 : skb->avail_size - skb->len;
+}
+
+/**
* skb_reserve - adjust headroom
* @skb: buffer to alter
* @len: bytes to move