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authorAlexander Lobakin2021-02-13 14:12:02 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller2021-02-13 14:32:03 -0800
commitfec6e49b63989657bc4076dad99fa51d5ece34da (patch)
tree98df77201dfd70c97cca49ddf73e0ea0aa7b7109 /net/core
parentf9d6725bf44a5b9412b5da07e3467100fe2af236 (diff)
skbuff: remove __kfree_skb_flush()
This function isn't much needed as NAPI skb queue gets bulk-freed anyway when there's no more room, and even may reduce the efficiency of bulk operations. It will be even less needed after reusing skb cache on allocation path, so remove it and this way lighten network softirqs a bit. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c7
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c12
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index ce6291bc2e16..631807c196ad 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4944,8 +4944,6 @@ static __latent_entropy void net_tx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
else
__kfree_skb_defer(skb);
}
-
- __kfree_skb_flush();
}
if (sd->output_queue) {
@@ -7012,7 +7010,6 @@ static int napi_threaded_poll(void *data)
__napi_poll(napi, &repoll);
netpoll_poll_unlock(have);
- __kfree_skb_flush();
local_bh_enable();
if (!repoll)
@@ -7042,7 +7039,7 @@ static __latent_entropy void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
if (list_empty(&list)) {
if (!sd_has_rps_ipi_waiting(sd) && list_empty(&repoll))
- goto out;
+ return;
break;
}
@@ -7069,8 +7066,6 @@ static __latent_entropy void net_rx_action(struct softirq_action *h)
__raise_softirq_irqoff(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ);
net_rps_action_and_irq_enable(sd);
-out:
- __kfree_skb_flush();
}
struct netdev_adjacent {
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 1c6f6ef70339..4be2bb969535 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -838,18 +838,6 @@ void __consume_stateless_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
kfree_skbmem(skb);
}
-void __kfree_skb_flush(void)
-{
- struct napi_alloc_cache *nc = this_cpu_ptr(&napi_alloc_cache);
-
- /* flush skb_cache if containing objects */
- if (nc->skb_count) {
- kmem_cache_free_bulk(skbuff_head_cache, nc->skb_count,
- nc->skb_cache);
- nc->skb_count = 0;
- }
-}
-
static inline void _kfree_skb_defer(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct napi_alloc_cache *nc = this_cpu_ptr(&napi_alloc_cache);