kernel-hacking-2024-linux-s.../net
Eric Dumazet acb600def2 net: remove skb recycling
Over time, skb recycling infrastructure got litle interest and
many bugs. Generic rx path skb allocation is now using page
fragments for efficient GRO / TCP coalescing, and recyling
a tx skb for rx path is not worth the pain.

Last identified bug is that fat skbs can be recycled
and it can endup using high order pages after few iterations.

With help from Maxime Bizon, who pointed out that commit
87151b8689 (net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom)
introduced this regression for recycled skbs.

Instead of fixing this bug, lets remove skb recycling.

Drivers wanting really hot skbs should use build_skb() anyway,
to allocate/populate sk_buff right before netif_receive_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
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9p Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
802
8021q 8021q: fix mac_len recomputation in vlan_untag() 2012-10-02 22:45:57 -04:00
appletalk
atm
ax25
batman-adv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-09-28 14:40:49 -04:00
bluetooth Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
bridge netlink: add attributes to fdb interface 2012-10-01 18:39:44 -04:00
caif
can sections: fix section conflicts in net/can 2012-10-06 03:04:45 +09:00
ceph
core net: remove skb recycling 2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
dcb
dccp
decnet sections: fix section conflicts in net 2012-10-06 03:04:45 +09:00
dns_resolver
dsa
ethernet
ieee802154
ipv4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-10-06 03:11:59 +09:00
ipv6 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-10-06 03:11:59 +09:00
ipx
irda silence some noisy printks in irda 2012-10-04 15:53:48 -04:00
iucv
key net/key/af_key.c: add range checks on ->sadb_x_policy_len 2012-10-01 17:15:06 -04:00
l2tp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-09-28 14:40:49 -04:00
lapb
llc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-10-02 11:11:09 -07:00
mac80211
mac802154
netfilter Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
netlabel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
netlink netlink: add reference of module in netlink_dump_start 2012-10-07 00:30:56 -04:00
netrom
nfc Remove noisy printks from llcp_sock_connect 2012-10-04 15:58:47 -04:00
openvswitch
packet Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-10-02 11:11:09 -07:00
phonet
rds
rfkill Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
rose
rxrpc
sched Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
sctp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-10-06 03:11:59 +09:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
tipc tipc: prevent dropped connections due to rcvbuf overflow 2012-10-04 15:53:48 -04:00
unix
wanrouter
wimax
wireless Merge branch 'for-davem' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next 2012-09-30 02:30:16 -04:00
x25
xfrm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
compat.c make get_file() return its argument 2012-09-26 21:10:25 -04:00
Kconfig
Makefile
nonet.c
socket.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
sysctl_net.c