net: more accurate skb truesize

skb truesize currently accounts for sk_buff struct and part of skb head.
kmalloc() roundings are also ignored.

Considering that skb_shared_info is larger than sk_buff, its time to
take it into account for better memory accounting.

This patch introduces SKB_TRUESIZE(X) macro to centralize various
assumptions into a single place.

At skb alloc phase, we put skb_shared_info struct at the exact end of
skb head, to allow a better use of memory (lowering number of
reallocations), since kmalloc() gives us power-of-two memory blocks.

Unless SLUB/SLUB debug is active, both skb->head and skb_shared_info are
aligned to cache lines, as before.

Note: This patch might trigger performance regressions because of
misconfigured protocol stacks, hitting per socket or global memory
limits that were previously not reached. But its a necessary step for a
more accurate memory accounting.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
CC: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index ac6b05a..64f8695 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
 #define SKB_MAX_HEAD(X)		(SKB_MAX_ORDER((X), 0))
 #define SKB_MAX_ALLOC		(SKB_MAX_ORDER(0, 2))
 
+/* return minimum truesize of one skb containing X bytes of data */
+#define SKB_TRUESIZE(X) ((X) +						\
+			 SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct sk_buff)) +	\
+			 SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info)))
+
 /* A. Checksumming of received packets by device.
  *
  *	NONE: device failed to checksum this packet.