From fd11a83dd3630ec6a60f8a702446532c5c7e1991 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Duyck Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 19:40:49 -0800 Subject: net: Pull out core bits of __netdev_alloc_skb and add __napi_alloc_skb This change pulls the core functionality out of __netdev_alloc_skb and places them in a new function named __alloc_rx_skb. The reason for doing this is to make these bits accessible to a new function __napi_alloc_skb. In addition __alloc_rx_skb now has a new flags value that is used to determine which page frag pool to allocate from. If the SKB_ALLOC_NAPI flag is set then the NAPI pool is used. The advantage of this is that we do not have to use local_irq_save/restore when accessing the NAPI pool from NAPI context. In my test setup I saw at least 11ns of savings using the napi_alloc_skb function versus the netdev_alloc_skb function, most of this being due to the fact that we didn't have to call local_irq_save/restore. The main use case for napi_alloc_skb would be for things such as copybreak or page fragment based receive paths where an skb is allocated after the data has been received instead of before. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/dev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/core/dev.c') diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 3f191da383f6..80f798da3d9f 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -4172,7 +4172,7 @@ struct sk_buff *napi_get_frags(struct napi_struct *napi) struct sk_buff *skb = napi->skb; if (!skb) { - skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(napi->dev, GRO_MAX_HEAD); + skb = napi_alloc_skb(napi, GRO_MAX_HEAD); napi->skb = skb; } return skb; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b