I noticed excess calls to skb_copy_expand() or memmove() in asix driver.
This driver needs to push 4 bytes in front of frame (packet_len)
and maybe add 4 bytes after the end (if padlen is 4)
So it should set needed_headroom & needed_tailroom to avoid
copies. But its not enough, because many packets are cloned
before entering asix_tx_fixup() and this driver use skb_cloned()
as a lazy way to check if it can push and put additional bytes in frame.
Avoid skb_copy_expand() expensive call, using following rules :
- We are allowed to push 4 bytes in headroom if skb_header_cloned()
is false (and if we have 4 bytes of headroom)
- We are allowed to put 4 bytes at tail if skb_cloned()
is false (and if we have 4 bytes of tailroom)
TCP packets for example are cloned, but skb_header_release()
was called in tcp stack, allowing us to use headroom for our needs.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Allan Chou <allan@asix.com.tw>
Cc: Trond Wuellner <trond@chromium.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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