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: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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