From 56138f50d1900b0c3d8647376e37b488b23ba53d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 04:48:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] iwlwifi: dont pull too much payload in skb head As iwlwifi use fat skbs, it should not pull too much data in skb->head, and particularly no tcp data payload, or splice() is slower, and TCP coalescing is disabled. Copying payload to userland also involves at least two copies (part from header, part from fragment) Each layer will pull its header from the fragment as needed. (on 64bit arches, skb_tailroom(skb) at this point is 192 bytes) With this patch applied, I have a major reduction of collapsed/pruned TCP packets, a nice increase of TCPRcvCoalesce counter, and overall better Internet User experience. Small packets are still using a fragless skb, so that page can be reused by the driver. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: Wey-Yi Guy Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c index 18a3837..403de96 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rx.c @@ -759,7 +759,12 @@ static void iwlagn_pass_packet_to_mac80211(struct iwl_priv *priv, IWL_ERR(priv, "alloc_skb failed\n"); return; } - hdrlen = min_t(unsigned int, len, skb_tailroom(skb)); + /* If frame is small enough to fit in skb->head, pull it completely. + * If not, only pull ieee80211_hdr so that splice() or TCP coalesce + * are more efficient. + */ + hdrlen = (len <= skb_tailroom(skb)) ? len : sizeof(*hdr); + memcpy(skb_put(skb, hdrlen), hdr, hdrlen); fraglen = len - hdrlen; -- 2.7.4