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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2009-01-29 14:19:50 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-01-29 16:33:03 -0800
commit86911732d3996a9da07914b280621450111bb6da (patch)
treee787240d5ba869ddf4d0adfc3f9c69e0372e96ef /include/linux/netdevice.h
parent5d0d9be8ef456afc6c3fb5f8aad06ef19b704b05 (diff)
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gro: Avoid copying headers of unmerged packets
Unfortunately simplicity isn't always the best. The fraginfo interface turned out to be suboptimal. The problem was quite obvious. For every packet, we have to copy the headers from the frags structure into skb->head, even though for 99% of the packets this part is immediately thrown away after the merge. LRO didn't have this problem because it directly read the headers from the frags structure. This patch attempts to address this by creating an interface that allows GRO to access the headers in the first frag without having to copy it. Because all drivers that use frags place the headers in the first frag this optimisation should be enough. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h26
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 2041950..7a5057f 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -984,6 +984,9 @@ void netif_napi_add(struct net_device *dev, struct napi_struct *napi,
void netif_napi_del(struct napi_struct *napi);
struct napi_gro_cb {
+ /* This indicates where we are processing relative to skb->data. */
+ int data_offset;
+
/* This is non-zero if the packet may be of the same flow. */
int same_flow;
@@ -1087,6 +1090,29 @@ extern int dev_restart(struct net_device *dev);
#ifdef CONFIG_NETPOLL_TRAP
extern int netpoll_trap(void);
#endif
+extern void *skb_gro_header(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int hlen);
+extern int skb_gro_receive(struct sk_buff **head,
+ struct sk_buff *skb);
+
+static inline unsigned int skb_gro_offset(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ return NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->data_offset;
+}
+
+static inline unsigned int skb_gro_len(const struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ return skb->len - NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->data_offset;
+}
+
+static inline void skb_gro_pull(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len)
+{
+ NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->data_offset += len;
+}
+
+static inline void skb_gro_reset_offset(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+ NAPI_GRO_CB(skb)->data_offset = 0;
+}
static inline int dev_hard_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
unsigned short type,
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