From a21d45726acacc963d8baddf74607d9b74e2b723 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:30:48 +0000 Subject: 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 Tested-by: Marc MERLIN Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c index 7758a83f98ff..a5daa211a8e1 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -701,11 +701,12 @@ struct sk_buff *sk_stream_alloc_skb(struct sock *sk, int size, gfp_t gfp) skb = alloc_skb_fclone(size + sk->sk_prot->max_header, gfp); if (skb) { if (sk_wmem_schedule(sk, skb->truesize)) { + skb_reserve(skb, sk->sk_prot->max_header); /* * Make sure that we have exactly size bytes * available to the caller, no more, no less. */ - skb_reserve(skb, skb_tailroom(skb) - size); + skb->avail_size = size; return skb; } __kfree_skb(skb); @@ -995,10 +996,9 @@ new_segment: copy = seglen; /* Where to copy to? */ - if (skb_tailroom(skb) > 0) { + if (skb_availroom(skb) > 0) { /* We have some space in skb head. Superb! */ - if (copy > skb_tailroom(skb)) - copy = skb_tailroom(skb); + copy = min_t(int, copy, skb_availroom(skb)); err = skb_add_data_nocache(sk, skb, from, copy); if (err) goto do_fault; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b