From d179cd12928443f3ec29cfbc3567439644bd0afc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:57:30 -0700 Subject: [NET]: Implement SKB fast cloning. Protocols that make extensive use of SKB cloning, for example TCP, eat at least 2 allocations per packet sent as a result. To cut the kmalloc() count in half, we implement a pre-allocation scheme wherein we allocate 2 sk_buff objects in advance, then use a simple reference count to free up the memory at the correct time. Based upon an initial patch by Thomas Graf and suggestions from Herbert Xu. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 8d92ab562aed..75b68116682a 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ void tcp_send_fin(struct sock *sk) } else { /* Socket is locked, keep trying until memory is available. */ for (;;) { - skb = alloc_skb(MAX_TCP_HEADER, GFP_KERNEL); + skb = alloc_skb_fclone(MAX_TCP_HEADER, GFP_KERNEL); if (skb) break; yield(); @@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@ int tcp_connect(struct sock *sk) tcp_connect_init(sk); - buff = alloc_skb(MAX_TCP_HEADER + 15, sk->sk_allocation); + buff = alloc_skb_fclone(MAX_TCP_HEADER + 15, sk->sk_allocation); if (unlikely(buff == NULL)) return -ENOBUFS; -- cgit v1.2.3