net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:08:39 +0000 (20:08 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:10:43 +0000 (10:10 -0400)
commit87151b8689d890dfb495081f7be9b9e257f7a2df
treecb12becc26090b9fd9275f25cee851ffb40d931f
parent996304bbea3d2a094b7ba54c3bd65d3fffeac57b
net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom

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.

Turns out part of the problem comes from pskb_expand_head() not using
ksize() to get exact head size given by kmalloc(). Doing the same thing
than __alloc_skb() allows more tailroom in skb and can prevent future
reallocations.

As a bonus, struct skb_shared_info becomes cache line aligned.

Reported-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Tested-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/skbuff.c