From a21d45726acacc963d8baddf74607d9b74e2b723 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:30:48 +0000 Subject: tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx path Marc Merlin reported many order-1 allocations failures in TX path on its wireless setup, that dont make any sense with MTU=1500 network, and non SG capable hardware. After investigation, it turns out TCP uses sk_stream_alloc_skb() and used as a convention skb_tailroom(skb) to know how many bytes of data payload could be put in this skb (for non SG capable devices) Note : these skb used kmalloc-4096 (MTU=1500 + MAX_HEADER + sizeof(struct skb_shared_info) being above 2048) Later, mac80211 layer need to add some bytes at the tail of skb (IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM = 18 bytes) and since no more tailroom is available has to call pskb_expand_head() and request order-1 allocations. This patch changes sk_stream_alloc_skb() so that only sk->sk_prot->max_header bytes of headroom are reserved, and use a new skb field, avail_size to hold the data payload limit. This way, order-0 allocations done by TCP stack can leave more than 2 KB of tailroom and no more allocation is performed in mac80211 layer (or any layer needing some tailroom) avail_size is unioned with mark/dropcount, since mark will be set later in IP stack for output packets. Therefore, skb size is unchanged. Reported-by: Marc MERLIN Tested-by: Marc MERLIN Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4/tcp_output.c') diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c index 364784a91939..376b2cfbb685 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c @@ -2060,7 +2060,7 @@ static void tcp_retrans_try_collapse(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *to, /* Punt if not enough space exists in the first SKB for * the data in the second */ - if (skb->len > skb_tailroom(to)) + if (skb->len > skb_availroom(to)) break; if (after(TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq, tcp_wnd_end(tp))) -- cgit v1.2.2