This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iwl4965: better skb management in rx path
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
iwl4965-better-skb-management-in-rx-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c1de4a9557d9e25e41fc4ba034b9659152205539 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 14:19:30 +0200
Subject: iwl4965: better skb management in rx path
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit c1de4a9557d9e25e41fc4ba034b9659152205539 upstream.
4965 version of Eric patch "iwl3945: better skb management in rx path".
It fixes several problems :
1) skb->truesize is underestimated.
We really consume PAGE_SIZE bytes for a fragment,
not the frame length.
2) 128 bytes of initial headroom is a bit low and forces reallocations.
3) We can avoid consuming a full page for small enough frames.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/4965-mac.c
@@ -574,9 +574,11 @@ il4965_translate_rx_status(struct il_pri
return decrypt_out;
}
+#define SMALL_PACKET_SIZE 256
+
static void
il4965_pass_packet_to_mac80211(struct il_priv *il, struct ieee80211_hdr *hdr,
- u16 len, u32 ampdu_status, struct il_rx_buf *rxb,
+ u32 len, u32 ampdu_status, struct il_rx_buf *rxb,
struct ieee80211_rx_status *stats)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
@@ -593,21 +595,25 @@ il4965_pass_packet_to_mac80211(struct il
il_set_decrypted_flag(il, hdr, ampdu_status, stats))
return;
- skb = dev_alloc_skb(128);
+ skb = dev_alloc_skb(SMALL_PACKET_SIZE);
if (!skb) {
IL_ERR("dev_alloc_skb failed\n");
return;
}
- skb_add_rx_frag(skb, 0, rxb->page, (void *)hdr - rxb_addr(rxb), len,
- len);
+ if (len <= SMALL_PACKET_SIZE) {
+ memcpy(skb_put(skb, len), hdr, len);
+ } else {
+ skb_add_rx_frag(skb, 0, rxb->page, (void *)hdr - rxb_addr(rxb),
+ len, PAGE_SIZE << il->hw_params.rx_page_order);
+ il->alloc_rxb_page--;
+ rxb->page = NULL;
+ }
il_update_stats(il, false, fc, len);
memcpy(IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb), stats, sizeof(*stats));
ieee80211_rx(il->hw, skb);
- il->alloc_rxb_page--;
- rxb->page = NULL;
}
/* Called for N_RX (legacy ABG frames), or
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/iwl3945-better-skb-management-in-rx-path.patch
queue-3.10/iwl4965-better-skb-management-in-rx-path.patch
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