linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 20/34] inet: frags: get rid of ipfrag_skb_cb/FRAG

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Date:   Thu,  7 Feb 2019 12:42:02 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 20/34] inet: frags: get rid of ipfrag_skb_cb/FRAG_CB

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

commit bf66337140c64c27fa37222b7abca7e49d63fb57 upstream.

ip_defrag uses skb->cb[] to store the fragment offset, and unfortunately
this integer is currently in a different cache line than skb->next,
meaning that we use two cache lines per skb when finding the insertion point.

By aliasing skb->ip_defrag_offset and skb->dev, we pack all the fields
in a single cache line and save precious memory bandwidth.

Note that after the fast path added by Changli Gao in commit
d6bebca92c66 ("fragment: add fast path for in-order fragments")
this change wont help the fast path, since we still need
to access prev->len (2nd cache line), but will show great
benefits when slow path is entered, since we perform
a linear scan of a potentially long list.

Also, note that this potential long list is an attack vector,
we might consider also using an rb-tree there eventually.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -558,6 +558,11 @@ struct sk_buff {
 		};
 		struct rb_node	rbnode; /* used in netem & tcp stack */
 	};
+
+	union {
+		int			ip_defrag_offset;
+	};
+
 	struct sock		*sk;
 	struct net_device	*dev;