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| author |   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2010-07-22 19:09:08 +0000 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-07-24 21:05:57 -0700 |
| commit | fed66381d65a35198639f564365e61a7f256bf79 (patch) | |
| tree | e4d4c83f135f58c32a85454e28e33407711f7718 /include/linux/skbuff.h | |
| parent | sysfs: add attribute to indicate hw address assignment type (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-fed66381d65a35198639f564365e61a7f256bf79.tar.xz linux-dev-fed66381d65a35198639f564365e61a7f256bf79.zip | |
net: pskb_expand_head() optimization
Move frags[] at the end of struct skb_shared_info, and make
pskb_expand_head() copy only the used part of it instead of whole array.
This should avoid kmemcheck warnings and speedup pskb_expand_head() as
well, avoiding a lot of cache misses.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/skbuff.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index f5aa87e1e0c8..d89876b806a0 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -202,10 +202,11 @@ struct skb_shared_info { */ atomic_t dataref; - skb_frag_t frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS]; /* Intermediate layers must ensure that destructor_arg * remains valid until skb destructor */ void * destructor_arg; + /* must be last field, see pskb_expand_head() */ + skb_frag_t frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS]; }; /* We divide dataref into two halves. The higher 16 bits hold references |