net: make GRO aware of skb->head_frag

GRO can check if skb to be merged has its skb->head mapped to a page
fragment, instead of a kmalloc() area.

We 'upgrade' skb->head as a fragment in itself

This avoids the frag_list fallback, and permits to build true GRO skb
(one sk_buff and up to 16 fragments), using less memory.

This reduces number of cache misses when user makes its copy, since a
single sk_buff is fetched.

This is a followup of patch "net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment"

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 9d28a22a8554..2c75e98953b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ static inline struct rtable *skb_rtable(const struct sk_buff *skb)
 extern void kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
 extern void consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
 extern void            __kfree_skb(struct sk_buff *skb);
+extern struct kmem_cache *skbuff_head_cache;
 extern struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int size,
                                    gfp_t priority, int fclone, int node);
 extern struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size);