linux/net/core
Alexander Duyck 540eb7bf0b net: Update alloc frag to reduce get/put page usage and recycle pages
This patch is meant to help improve performance by reducing the number of
locked operations required to allocate a frag on x86 and other platforms.
This is accomplished by using atomic_set operations on the page count
instead of calling get_page and put_page.  It is based on work originally
provided by Eric Dumazet.

In addition it also helps to reduce memory overhead when using TCP.  This
is done by recycling the page if the only holder of the frame is the
netdev_alloc_frag call itself.  This can occur when skb heads are stolen by
either GRO or TCP and the driver providing the packets is using paged frags
to store all of the data for the packets.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-13 05:48:36 -07:00
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Makefile sock_diag: Move the sock_ code to net/core/ 2011-12-06 13:58:02 -05:00
datagram.c net: skb_free_datagram_locked() doesnt drop all packets 2012-06-27 15:40:57 -07:00
dev.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-07-10 23:56:33 -07:00
dev_addr_lists.c net: addr_list: add exclusive dev_uc_add and dev_mc_add 2012-04-15 13:06:04 -04:00
drop_monitor.c drop_monitor: dont sleep in atomic context 2012-06-04 11:42:01 -04:00
dst.c net: Kill dst->_neighbour, accessors, and final uses. 2012-07-05 02:42:00 -07:00
ethtool.c ethtool: Make more commands available to unprivileged processes 2012-06-12 18:51:09 -07:00
fib_rules.c ipv4: Elide fib_validate_source() completely when possible. 2012-06-29 01:36:36 -07:00
filter.c net/core: fix kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-08 22:20:58 -07:00
flow.c net: Add a flow_cache_flush_deferred function 2011-12-21 16:48:08 -05:00
flow_dissector.c net: flow_dissector.c missing include linux/export.h 2012-01-24 16:03:33 -05:00
gen_estimator.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
gen_stats.c gen_stats: Stop using NLA_PUT*(). 2012-04-02 04:33:44 -04:00
iovec.c net: get rid of some pointless casts to sockaddr 2012-03-11 19:11:22 -07:00
link_watch.c net: linkwatch: allow vlans to get carrier changes faster 2011-09-15 15:36:34 -04:00
neighbour.c neigh: Convert over to dst_neigh_lookup_skb(). 2012-07-05 01:12:00 -07:00
net-sysfs.c wireless: remove wext sysfs 2012-06-05 15:32:15 -04:00
net-sysfs.h xps: Add CONFIG_XPS 2010-11-28 18:24:14 -08:00
net-traces.c net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules 2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
net_namespace.c net: core: Use pr_<level> 2012-05-17 05:00:04 -04:00
netevent.c net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules 2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
netpoll.c netpoll: fix netpoll_send_udp() bugs 2012-06-13 15:57:31 -07:00
netprio_cgroup.c net: cgroup: fix out of bounds accesses 2012-07-09 14:50:54 -07:00
pktgen.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-05-20 21:53:04 -04:00
request_sock.c ipv4:correct description for tcp_max_syn_backlog 2011-12-06 13:02:28 -05:00
rtnetlink.c net: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions 2012-07-10 23:13:45 -07:00
scm.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
secure_seq.c net: fix some sparse errors 2012-01-17 10:31:12 -05:00
skbuff.c net: Update alloc frag to reduce get/put page usage and recycle pages 2012-07-13 05:48:36 -07:00
sock.c tcp: TCP Small Queues 2012-07-11 18:12:59 -07:00
sock_diag.c netlink: add netlink_kernel_cfg parameter to netlink_kernel_create 2012-06-29 16:46:02 -07:00
stream.c net: Fix the condition passed to sk_wait_event() 2010-10-03 20:41:32 -07:00
sysctl_net_core.c net: Delete all remaining instances of ctl_path 2012-04-20 21:22:30 -04:00
timestamping.c net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules 2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
user_dma.c net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules 2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
utils.c net: Fixed coding style issues relating to braces. 2012-04-12 16:35:48 -04:00