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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-07-22 19:09:08 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-07-24 21:05:57 -0700
commitfed66381d65a35198639f564365e61a7f256bf79 (patch)
treee4d4c83f135f58c32a85454e28e33407711f7718 /include/linux/skbuff.h
parentc1f79426e2df5ef96fe3e76de6c7606d15bf390b (diff)
net: pskb_expand_head() optimization
Move frags[] at the end of struct skb_shared_info, and make pskb_expand_head() copy only the used part of it instead of whole array. This should avoid kmemcheck warnings and speedup pskb_expand_head() as well, avoiding a lot of cache misses. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/skbuff.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index f5aa87e1e0c..d89876b806a 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -202,10 +202,11 @@ struct skb_shared_info {
*/
atomic_t dataref;
- skb_frag_t frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS];
/* Intermediate layers must ensure that destructor_arg
* remains valid until skb destructor */
void * destructor_arg;
+ /* must be last field, see pskb_expand_head() */
+ skb_frag_t frags[MAX_SKB_FRAGS];
};
/* We divide dataref into two halves. The higher 16 bits hold references