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Commit 66c55602 authored by Alexander Lobakin's avatar Alexander Lobakin Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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skbuff: back tiny skbs with kmalloc() in __netdev_alloc_skb() too

Commit 3226b158 ("net: avoid 32 x truesize under-estimation for
tiny skbs") ensured that skbs with data size lower than 1025 bytes
will be kmalloc'ed to avoid excessive page cache fragmentation and
memory consumption.
However, the fix adressed only __napi_alloc_skb() (primarily for
virtio_net and napi_get_frags()), but the issue can still be achieved
through __netdev_alloc_skb(), which is still used by several drivers.
Drivers often allocate a tiny skb for headers and place the rest of
the frame to frags (so-called copybreak).
Mirror the condition to __netdev_alloc_skb() to handle this case too.

Since v1 [0]:
 - fix "Fixes:" tag;
 - refine commit message (mention copybreak usecase).

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20210114235423.232737-1-alobakin@pm.me

Fixes: a1c7fff7

 ("net: netdev_alloc_skb() use build_skb()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210115150354.85967-1-alobakin@pm.me
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent bcd0cf19
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