commit
068a2de57ddf4f472e32e7af868613c574ad1d88 upstream.
Non-GSO code drops dst entry for performance reasons, but
the same is missing for GSO code. Drop dst while cache-hot
for GSO case too.
Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
skb->next = nskb->next;
nskb->next = NULL;
+
+ /*
+ * If device doesnt need nskb->dst, release it right now while
+ * its hot in this cpu cache
+ */
+ if (dev->priv_flags & IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE)
+ skb_dst_drop(nskb);
+
rc = ops->ndo_start_xmit(nskb, dev);
if (unlikely(rc != NETDEV_TX_OK)) {
nskb->next = skb->next;