net: avoid one atomic operation in skb_clone()

Fast clone cloning can actually avoid an atomic_inc(), if we
guarantee prior clone_ref value is 1.

This requires a change kfree_skbmem(), to perform the
atomic_dec_and_test() on clone_ref before setting fclone to
SKB_FCLONE_UNAVAILABLE.

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

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index a8cebb4..f77e648 100644 (file)
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -541,13 +541,20 @@ static void kfree_skbmem(struct sk_buff *skb)
        case SKB_FCLONE_CLONE:
                fclones = container_of(skb, struct sk_buff_fclones, skb2);
 
-               /* The clone portion is available for
-                * fast-cloning again.
+               /* Warning : We must perform the atomic_dec_and_test() before
+                * setting skb->fclone back to SKB_FCLONE_UNAVAILABLE, otherwise
+                * skb_clone() could set clone_ref to 2 before our decrement.
+                * Anyway, if we are going to free the structure, no need to
+                * rewrite skb->fclone.
                 */
-               skb->fclone = SKB_FCLONE_UNAVAILABLE;
-
-               if (atomic_dec_and_test(&fclones->fclone_ref))
+               if (atomic_dec_and_test(&fclones->fclone_ref)) {
                        kmem_cache_free(skbuff_fclone_cache, fclones);
+               } else {
+                       /* The clone portion is available for
+                        * fast-cloning again.
+                        */
+                       skb->fclone = SKB_FCLONE_UNAVAILABLE;
+               }
                break;
        }
 }
@@ -869,7 +876,11 @@ struct sk_buff *skb_clone(struct sk_buff *skb, gfp_t gfp_mask)
        if (skb->fclone == SKB_FCLONE_ORIG &&
            n->fclone == SKB_FCLONE_UNAVAILABLE) {
                n->fclone = SKB_FCLONE_CLONE;
-               atomic_inc(&fclones->fclone_ref);
+               /* As our fastclone was free, clone_ref must be 1 at this point.
+                * We could use atomic_inc() here, but it is faster
+                * to set the final value.
+                */
+               atomic_set(&fclones->fclone_ref, 2);
        } else {
                if (skb_pfmemalloc(skb))
                        gfp_mask |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;