net: skb_segment() provides list head and tail

Its unfortunate we have to walk again skb list to find the tail
after segmentation, even if data is probably hot in cpu caches.

skb_segment() can store the tail of the list into segs->prev,
and validate_xmit_skb_list() can immediately get the tail.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet
2014-10-03 20:59:19 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 45d9cc7c60
commit bec3cfdca3
2 changed files with 21 additions and 13 deletions

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@@ -3083,6 +3083,11 @@ perform_csum_check:
}
} while ((offset += len) < head_skb->len);
/* Some callers want to get the end of the list.
* Put it in segs->prev to avoid walking the list.
* (see validate_xmit_skb_list() for example)
*/
segs->prev = tail;
return segs;
err: