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net: core: introduce build_skb_around

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The function build_skb() also have the responsibility to allocate and clear
the SKB structure. Introduce a new function build_skb_around(), that moves
the responsibility of allocation and clearing to the caller. This allows
caller to use kmem_cache (slab/slub) bulk allocation API.

Next patch use this function combined with kmem_cache_alloc_bulk.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-04-12 17:07:37 +02:00
committed by Alexei Starovoitov
parent 77361825bb
commit ba0509b688
2 changed files with 54 additions and 19 deletions
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@@ -1042,6 +1042,8 @@ struct sk_buff *__alloc_skb(unsigned int size, gfp_t priority, int flags,
int node);
struct sk_buff *__build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size);
struct sk_buff *build_skb(void *data, unsigned int frag_size);
struct sk_buff *build_skb_around(struct sk_buff *skb,
void *data, unsigned int frag_size);
/**
* alloc_skb - allocate a network buffer