skb: avoid unnecessary reallocations in __skb_cow

At the beginning of __skb_cow, headroom gets set to a minimum of
NET_SKB_PAD. This causes unnecessary reallocations if the buffer was not
cloned and the headroom is just below NET_SKB_PAD, but still more than the
amount requested by the caller.
This was showing up frequently in my tests on VLAN tx, where
vlan_insert_tag calls skb_cow_head(skb, VLAN_HLEN).

Locally generated packets should have enough headroom, and for forward
paths, we already have NET_SKB_PAD bytes of headroom, so we don't need to
add any extra space here.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index 0e501714d47fa1a885b79079d7eb82bbbb71d831..b534a1be540a0e254e39adf7443e2fdf3151b7f6 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1896,8 +1896,6 @@ static inline int __skb_cow(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int headroom,
 {
        int delta = 0;
 
-       if (headroom < NET_SKB_PAD)
-               headroom = NET_SKB_PAD;
        if (headroom > skb_headroom(skb))
                delta = headroom - skb_headroom(skb);