net: Increase NET_SKB_PAD to 64 bytes

eth_type_trans() & get_rps_cpus() currently need two 64bytes cache
lines in packet to compute rxhash.

Increasing NET_SKB_PAD from 32 to 64 reduces the need to one cache
line only, and makes RPS faster.

NET_IP_ALIGN(2) + ethernet_header(14) + IP_header(20/40) + ports(8)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 88d55395a27c..c9525bce80f6 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1361,9 +1361,12 @@ static inline int skb_network_offset(const struct sk_buff *skb)
  *
  * Various parts of the networking layer expect at least 32 bytes of
  * headroom, you should not reduce this.
+ * With RPS, we raised NET_SKB_PAD to 64 so that get_rps_cpus() fetches span
+ * a 64 bytes aligned block to fit modern (>= 64 bytes) cache line sizes
+ * NET_IP_ALIGN(2) + ethernet_header(14) + IP_header(20/40) + ports(8)
  */
 #ifndef NET_SKB_PAD
-#define NET_SKB_PAD     32
+#define NET_SKB_PAD     64
 #endif
 
 extern int ___pskb_trim(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int len);