net: remove skb recycling

Over time, skb recycling infrastructure got litle interest and
many bugs. Generic rx path skb allocation is now using page
fragments for efficient GRO / TCP coalescing, and recyling
a tx skb for rx path is not worth the pain.

Last identified bug is that fat skbs can be recycled
and it can endup using high order pages after few iterations.

With help from Maxime Bizon, who pointed out that commit
87151b8689d (net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom)
introduced this regression for recycled skbs.

Instead of fixing this bug, lets remove skb recycling.

Drivers wanting really hot skbs should use build_skb() anyway,
to allocate/populate sk_buff right before netif_receive_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h
index 4141ef2ddafc..22eabc13ca99 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar.h
@@ -1080,8 +1080,6 @@ struct gfar_private {
 
         u32 cur_filer_idx;
 
-        struct sk_buff_head rx_recycle;
-
         /* RX queue filer rule set*/
         struct ethtool_rx_list rx_list;
         struct mutex rx_queue_access;