Commit 181edb2b authored by Alexander Duyck's avatar Alexander Duyck Committed by David S. Miller
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net: Add skb_free_frag to replace use of put_page in freeing skb->head 



This change adds a function called skb_free_frag which is meant to
compliment the function netdev_alloc_frag.  The general idea is to enable a
more lightweight version of page freeing since we don't actually need all
the overhead of a put_page, and we don't quite fit the model of __free_pages.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b63ae8ca

include/linux/skbuff.h

+5 −0
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@@ -2182,6 +2182,11 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(struct net_device *dev, 
	return __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(dev, length, GFP_ATOMIC);

}



static inline void skb_free_frag(void *addr)

{

	__free_page_frag(addr);

}



void *napi_alloc_frag(unsigned int fragsz);

struct sk_buff *__napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct *napi,

				 unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp_mask);

net/core/skbuff.c

+6 −4
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@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int len, 


	skb = __build_skb(data, len);

	if (unlikely(!skb)) {

		put_page(virt_to_head_page(data));

		skb_free_frag(data);

		return NULL;

	}
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ struct sk_buff *__napi_alloc_skb(struct napi_struct *napi, unsigned int len, 


	skb = __build_skb(data, len);

	if (unlikely(!skb)) {

		put_page(virt_to_head_page(data));

		skb_free_frag(data);

		return NULL;

	}
@@ -549,10 +549,12 @@ static void skb_clone_fraglist(struct sk_buff *skb) 


static void skb_free_head(struct sk_buff *skb)

{

	unsigned char *head = skb->head;



	if (skb->head_frag)

		put_page(virt_to_head_page(skb->head));

		skb_free_frag(head);

	else

		kfree(skb->head);

		kfree(head);

}



static void skb_release_data(struct sk_buff *skb)

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