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authorPavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>2022-07-12 21:52:25 +0100
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-07-18 19:58:03 -0700
commit8eb77cc73977d88787b37c92831b1c242e035396 (patch)
treeebc67f292b3513e9ca1cfac0599daccf59cb01af /net/ipv4/ip_output.c
parent32346491ddf24599decca06190ebca03ff9de7f8 (diff)
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ipv4: avoid partial copy for zc
Even when zerocopy transmission is requested and possible, __ip_append_data() will still copy a small chunk of data just because it allocated some extra linear space (e.g. 148 bytes). It wastes CPU cycles on copy and iter manipulations and also misalignes potentially aligned data. Avoid such copies. And as a bonus we can allocate smaller skb. Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/ip_output.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/ip_output.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 00b4bf26fd93..581d1e233260 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -969,7 +969,6 @@ static int __ip_append_data(struct sock *sk,
struct inet_sock *inet = inet_sk(sk);
struct ubuf_info *uarg = NULL;
struct sk_buff *skb;
-
struct ip_options *opt = cork->opt;
int hh_len;
int exthdrlen;
@@ -977,6 +976,7 @@ static int __ip_append_data(struct sock *sk,
int copy;
int err;
int offset = 0;
+ bool zc = false;
unsigned int maxfraglen, fragheaderlen, maxnonfragsize;
int csummode = CHECKSUM_NONE;
struct rtable *rt = (struct rtable *)cork->dst;
@@ -1025,6 +1025,7 @@ static int __ip_append_data(struct sock *sk,
if (rt->dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_SG &&
csummode == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) {
paged = true;
+ zc = true;
} else {
uarg->zerocopy = 0;
skb_zcopy_set(skb, uarg, &extra_uref);
@@ -1091,9 +1092,12 @@ alloc_new_skb:
(fraglen + alloc_extra < SKB_MAX_ALLOC ||
!(rt->dst.dev->features & NETIF_F_SG)))
alloclen = fraglen;
- else {
+ else if (!zc) {
alloclen = min_t(int, fraglen, MAX_HEADER);
pagedlen = fraglen - alloclen;
+ } else {
+ alloclen = fragheaderlen + transhdrlen;
+ pagedlen = datalen - transhdrlen;
}
alloclen += alloc_extra;