netdev - [PATCH 05/10] net: Add skb_free_frag to replace use of put

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Date:	Wed, 06 May 2015 21:12:03 -0700
From:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH 05/10] 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: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h |    5 +++++
 net/core/skbuff.c      |   10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 0039fcc45b3b..c0b574a414e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -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);
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index dcc0e07abf47..d67e612bf0ef 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -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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