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-rw-r--r--net/8021q/vlan_dev.c1
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c9
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
index 8faacee68633..ff7572ac5481 100644
--- a/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
+++ b/net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
@@ -739,6 +739,7 @@ void vlan_setup(struct net_device *dev)
ether_setup(dev);
dev->priv_flags |= IFF_802_1Q_VLAN;
+ dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE;
dev->tx_queue_len = 0;
dev->netdev_ops = &vlan_netdev_ops;
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 6d3630d16271..92ebeca29901 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1688,6 +1688,14 @@ int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
goto gso;
}
+ /*
+ * If device doesnt need skb->dst, release it right now while
+ * its hot in this cpu cache
+ */
+ if ((dev->priv_flags & IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE) && skb->dst) {
+ dst_release(skb->dst);
+ skb->dst = NULL;
+ }
rc = ops->ndo_start_xmit(skb, dev);
/*
* TODO: if skb_orphan() was called by
@@ -5045,6 +5053,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_netdev_mq(int sizeof_priv, const char *name,
netdev_init_queues(dev);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->napi_list);
+ dev->priv_flags = IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE;
setup(dev);
strcpy(dev->name, name);
return dev;