From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:23:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: mac80211: significantly reduce the cpu load caused by excessive skb header cloning
X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=121b27fb2b3554653aae0f5cfec0c626f29bf75a;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fthess.git

mac80211: significantly reduce the cpu load caused by excessive skb header cloning

SVN-Revision: 24669
---

diff --git a/package/mac80211/patches/540-mac80211_tx_optimization.patch b/package/mac80211/patches/540-mac80211_tx_optimization.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e239abd828
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/mac80211/patches/540-mac80211_tx_optimization.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c
++++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c
+@@ -1549,8 +1549,10 @@ static int ieee80211_skb_resize(struct i
+ 
+ 	if (skb_header_cloned(skb))
+ 		I802_DEBUG_INC(local->tx_expand_skb_head_cloned);
+-	else
++	else if (head_need || tail_need)
+ 		I802_DEBUG_INC(local->tx_expand_skb_head);
++	else
++		return;
+ 
+ 	if (pskb_expand_head(skb, head_need, tail_need, GFP_ATOMIC)) {
+ 		wiphy_debug(local->hw.wiphy,