Commit c2dd4059 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller

net: minor optimization in __alloc_skb()

TCP allocates 'fast clones' skbs for packets in tx queues.

Currently, __alloc_skb() initializes the companion fclone
field to SKB_FCLONE_CLONE, and leaves other fields untouched.

It makes sense to defer this init much later in skb_clone(),
because all fclone fields are copied and hot in cpu caches
at that time.

This removes one cache line miss in __alloc_skb(), cost seen
on an host with 256 cpus all competing on memory accesses.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 8e151457
......@@ -454,8 +454,6 @@ struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_mask,
skb->fclone = SKB_FCLONE_ORIG;
refcount_set(&fclones->fclone_ref, 1);
fclones->skb2.fclone = SKB_FCLONE_CLONE;
}
return skb;
......@@ -1513,6 +1511,7 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_clone(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
refcount_read(&fclones->fclone_ref) == 1) {
n = &fclones->skb2;
refcount_set(&fclones->fclone_ref, 2);
n->fclone = SKB_FCLONE_CLONE;
} else {
if (skb_pfmemalloc(skb))
gfp_mask |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
......
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