From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:18:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: asix: asix_rx_fixup surgery to reduce skb truesizes
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.57~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a94c450fea945252e3beebacacd5d3b913f38f4b;p=pandora-kernel.git

asix: asix_rx_fixup surgery to reduce skb truesizes

commit a9e0aca4b37885b5599e52211f098bd7f565e749 upstream.

asix_rx_fixup() is complex, and does some unnecessary memory copies (at
least on x86 where NET_IP_ALIGN is 0)

Also, it tends to provide skbs with a big truesize (4096+256 with
MTU=1500) to upper stack, so incoming trafic consume a lot of memory and
I noticed early packet drops because we hit socket rcvbuf too fast.

Switch to a different strategy, using copybreak so that we provide nice
skbs to upper stack (including the NET_SKB_PAD to avoid future head
reallocations in some paths)

With this patch, I no longer see packets drops or tcp collapses on
various tcp workload with a AX88772 adapter.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Aurelien Jacobs <aurel@gnuage.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Trond Wuellner <trond@chromium.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[ Emil: Backported to 3.2: fixed small conflict ]
Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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