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Commit c2dd4059 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net: minor optimization in __alloc_skb()



TCP allocates 'fast clones' skbs for packets in tx queues.

Currently, __alloc_skb() initializes the companion fclone
field to SKB_FCLONE_CLONE, and leaves other fields untouched.

It makes sense to defer this init much later in skb_clone(),
because all fclone fields are copied and hot in cpu caches
at that time.

This removes one cache line miss in __alloc_skb(), cost seen
on an host with 256 cpus all competing on memory accesses.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 8e151457
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