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authorKrishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>2010-01-21 01:26:29 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-01-21 01:26:29 -0800
commit4b258461c0b31ded170a1a56b944b0fded1c887b (patch)
treece1fa90ec4fc8ea8e5fb4646f3e5a8d88f98dac3 /net/core
parent5f8cbc13225eadd981c817f7d14b8deab61ebfaa (diff)
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net: Optimize non-gso test checks
Avoid checking twice whether skb needs to be linearized, if one skb_linearize was already done. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c29
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 5747b9e..4fad9db 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1982,6 +1982,21 @@ static inline int __dev_xmit_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, struct Qdisc *q,
return rc;
}
+/*
+ * Returns true if either:
+ * 1. skb has frag_list and the device doesn't support FRAGLIST, or
+ * 2. skb is fragmented and the device does not support SG, or if
+ * at least one of fragments is in highmem and device does not
+ * support DMA from it.
+ */
+static inline int skb_needs_linearize(struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct net_device *dev)
+{
+ return (skb_has_frags(skb) && !(dev->features & NETIF_F_FRAGLIST)) ||
+ (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags && (!(dev->features & NETIF_F_SG) ||
+ illegal_highdma(dev, skb)));
+}
+
/**
* dev_queue_xmit - transmit a buffer
* @skb: buffer to transmit
@@ -2018,18 +2033,8 @@ int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb)
if (netif_needs_gso(dev, skb))
goto gso;
- if (skb_has_frags(skb) &&
- !(dev->features & NETIF_F_FRAGLIST) &&
- __skb_linearize(skb))
- goto out_kfree_skb;
-
- /* Fragmented skb is linearized if device does not support SG,
- * or if at least one of fragments is in highmem and device
- * does not support DMA from it.
- */
- if (skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags &&
- (!(dev->features & NETIF_F_SG) || illegal_highdma(dev, skb)) &&
- __skb_linearize(skb))
+ /* Convert a paged skb to linear, if required */
+ if (skb_needs_linearize(skb, dev) && __skb_linearize(skb))
goto out_kfree_skb;
/* If packet is not checksummed and device does not support
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