net: bulk free SKBs that were delay free'ed due to IRQ context
The network stack defers SKBs free, in-case free happens in IRQ or
when IRQs are disabled. This happens in __dev_kfree_skb_irq() that
writes SKBs that were free'ed during IRQ to the softirq completion
queue (softnet_data.completion_queue).
These SKBs are naturally delayed, and cleaned up during NET_TX_SOFTIRQ
in function net_tx_action(). Take advantage of this a use the skb
defer and flush API, as we are already in softirq context.
For modern drivers this rarely happens. Although most drivers do call
dev_kfree_skb_any(), which detects the situation and calls
__dev_kfree_skb_irq() when needed. This due to netpoll can call from
IRQ context.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index b56c010..6ec86f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -2407,6 +2407,7 @@
void napi_consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int budget);
void __kfree_skb_flush(void);
+void __kfree_skb_defer(struct sk_buff *skb);
/**
* __dev_alloc_pages - allocate page for network Rx