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net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:08:39 +0000 (20:08 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:17:06 +0000 (10:17 -0700)
commit1cf9d571c6e48f15608203fc76fa29c617459e0c
tree7b31ea354b2ede34d669ecae1a37a9216fa880a3
parent069d2955aa39b11764025031235ec3d7d215ce84
net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom

[ Upstream commit 87151b8689d890dfb495081f7be9b9e257f7a2df ]

Marc Merlin reported many order-1 allocations failures in TX path on its
wireless setup, that dont make any sense with MTU=1500 network, and non
SG capable hardware.

Turns out part of the problem comes from pskb_expand_head() not using
ksize() to get exact head size given by kmalloc(). Doing the same thing
than __alloc_skb() allows more tailroom in skb and can prevent future
reallocations.

As a bonus, struct skb_shared_info becomes cache line aligned.

Reported-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Tested-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/core/skbuff.c