linux/net/core
Eric Dumazet acb600def2 net: remove skb recycling
Over time, skb recycling infrastructure got litle interest and
many bugs. Generic rx path skb allocation is now using page
fragments for efficient GRO / TCP coalescing, and recyling
a tx skb for rx path is not worth the pain.

Last identified bug is that fat skbs can be recycled
and it can endup using high order pages after few iterations.

With help from Maxime Bizon, who pointed out that commit
87151b8689 (net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom)
introduced this regression for recycled skbs.

Instead of fixing this bug, lets remove skb recycling.

Drivers wanting really hot skbs should use build_skb() anyway,
to allocate/populate sk_buff right before netif_receive_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
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datagram.c net: skb_free_datagram_locked() doesnt drop all packets 2012-06-27 15:40:57 -07:00
dev_addr_lists.c netdev: make address const in device address management 2012-09-19 16:35:22 -04:00
dev.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
drop_monitor.c drop_monitor: dont sleep in atomic context 2012-06-04 11:42:01 -04:00
dst.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
ethtool.c net: provide a default dev->ethtool_ops 2012-09-19 15:40:15 -04:00
fib_rules.c netlink: Rename pid to portid to avoid confusion 2012-09-10 15:30:41 -04:00
filter.c filter: add XOR instruction for use with X/K 2012-09-24 16:49:21 -04:00
flow_dissector.c ipv6: add ipv6_addr_hash() helper 2012-07-18 11:28:46 -07:00
flow.c net: Add a flow_cache_flush_deferred function 2011-12-21 16:48:08 -05:00
gen_estimator.c Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
gen_stats.c gen_stats: Stop using NLA_PUT*(). 2012-04-02 04:33:44 -04:00
iovec.c net: get rid of some pointless casts to sockaddr 2012-03-11 19:11:22 -07:00
link_watch.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
Makefile sock_diag: Move the sock_ code to net/core/ 2011-12-06 13:58:02 -05:00
neighbour.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
net_namespace.c net: Statically initialize init_net.dev_base_head 2012-07-18 13:32:27 -07:00
net-sysfs.c net: add unknown state to sysfs NIC duplex export 2012-09-05 17:40:07 -04:00
net-sysfs.h xps: Add CONFIG_XPS 2010-11-28 18:24:14 -08:00
net-traces.c net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules 2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
netevent.c net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules 2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
netpoll.c netpoll: call ->ndo_select_queue() in tx path 2012-09-19 17:19:09 -04:00
netprio_cgroup.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
pktgen.c pktgen: fix crash with vlan and packet size less than 46 2012-09-13 17:10:00 -04:00
request_sock.c tcp: TCP Fast Open Server - support TFO listeners 2012-08-31 20:02:19 -04:00
rtnetlink.c netlink: add attributes to fdb interface 2012-10-01 18:39:44 -04:00
scm.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
secure_seq.c netfilter: ipv6: add IPv6 NAT support 2012-08-30 03:00:17 +02:00
skbuff.c net: remove skb recycling 2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
sock_diag.c netlink: hide struct module parameter in netlink_kernel_create 2012-09-08 18:46:30 -04:00
sock.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
stream.c
sysctl_net_core.c net: Delete all remaining instances of ctl_path 2012-04-20 21:22:30 -04:00
timestamping.c net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules 2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
user_dma.c net: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE to non-modules 2011-10-31 19:30:30 -04:00
utils.c net: core: add function for incremental IPv6 pseudo header checksum updates 2012-08-30 03:00:16 +02:00