netdev - [PATCH stable 4.9 v2 17/29] inet: frags: get rid of ipfrag_skb_cb/FRAG

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Date:   Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:30:05 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com
Subject: [PATCH stable 4.9 v2 17/29] inet: frags: get rid of ipfrag_skb_cb/FRAG_CB

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

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>
(cherry picked from commit bf66337140c64c27fa37222b7abca7e49d63fb57)
---
 include/linux/skbuff.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 1f207dd22757..c7cca35fcf6d 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -645,6 +645,11 @@ struct sk_buff {
 		};
 		struct rb_node	rbnode; /* used in netem & tcp stack */
 	};
+
+	union {
+		int			ip_defrag_offset;
+	};
+
 	struct sock		*sk;
 	struct net_device	*dev;

-- 
2.17.1