netdev - [PATCH] net: fix napi_reuse

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Date:	Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:58:03 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] net: fix napi_reuse_skb() skb reserve

napi->skb is allocated in napi_get_frags() using
netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(), with a reserve of NET_SKB_PAD +
NET_IP_ALIGN bytes.

However, when such skb is recycled in napi_reuse_skb(), it ends with a
reserve of NET_IP_ALIGN which is suboptimal.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 0f3eb7d..452db70 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3560,7 +3560,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(napi_gro_receive);
 static void napi_reuse_skb(struct napi_struct *napi, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	__skb_pull(skb, skb_headlen(skb));
-	skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN - skb_headroom(skb));
+	/* restore the reserve we had after netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() */
+	skb_reserve(skb, NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN - skb_headroom(skb));
 	skb->vlan_tci = 0;
 	skb->dev = napi->dev;
 	skb->skb_iif = 0;


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