net: add skb_recycle_check() to enable netdriver skb recycling

This patch adds skb_recycle_check(), which can be used by a network
driver after transmitting an skb to check whether this skb can be
recycled as a receive buffer.

skb_recycle_check() checks that the skb is not shared or cloned, and
that it is linear and its head portion large enough (as determined by
the driver) to be recycled as a receive buffer.  If these conditions
are met, it does any necessary reference count dropping and cleans
up the skbuff as if it just came from __alloc_skb().

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index a19ea43fea02..720b688c22b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *alloc_skb_fclone(unsigned int size,
         return __alloc_skb(size, priority, 1, -1);
 }
 
+extern int skb_recycle_check(struct sk_buff *skb, int skb_size);
+
 extern struct sk_buff *skb_morph(struct sk_buff *dst, struct sk_buff *src);
 extern struct sk_buff *skb_clone(struct sk_buff *skb,
                                  gfp_t priority);