tcp: avoid order-1 allocations on wifi and tx path
Marc Merlin reported many order-1 allocations failures in TX path on its
wireless setup, that dont make any sense with MTU=1500 network, and non
SG capable hardware.
After investigation, it turns out TCP uses sk_stream_alloc_skb() and
used as a convention skb_tailroom(skb) to know how many bytes of data
payload could be put in this skb (for non SG capable devices)
Note : these skb used kmalloc-4096 (MTU=1500 + MAX_HEADER +
sizeof(struct skb_shared_info) being above 2048)
Later, mac80211 layer need to add some bytes at the tail of skb
(IEEE80211_ENCRYPT_TAILROOM = 18 bytes) and since no more tailroom is
available has to call pskb_expand_head() and request order-1
allocations.
This patch changes sk_stream_alloc_skb() so that only
sk->sk_prot->max_header bytes of headroom are reserved, and use a new
skb field, avail_size to hold the data payload limit.
This way, order-0 allocations done by TCP stack can leave more than 2 KB
of tailroom and no more allocation is performed in mac80211 layer (or
any layer needing some tailroom)
avail_size is unioned with mark/dropcount, since mark will be set later
in IP stack for output packets. Therefore, skb size is unchanged.
Reported-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Tested-by: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 7758a83..a5daa21 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -701,11 +701,12 @@
skb = alloc_skb_fclone(size + sk->sk_prot->max_header, gfp);
if (skb) {
if (sk_wmem_schedule(sk, skb->truesize)) {
+ skb_reserve(skb, sk->sk_prot->max_header);
/*
* Make sure that we have exactly size bytes
* available to the caller, no more, no less.
*/
- skb_reserve(skb, skb_tailroom(skb) - size);
+ skb->avail_size = size;
return skb;
}
__kfree_skb(skb);
@@ -995,10 +996,9 @@
copy = seglen;
/* Where to copy to? */
- if (skb_tailroom(skb) > 0) {
+ if (skb_availroom(skb) > 0) {
/* We have some space in skb head. Superb! */
- if (copy > skb_tailroom(skb))
- copy = skb_tailroom(skb);
+ copy = min_t(int, copy, skb_availroom(skb));
err = skb_add_data_nocache(sk, skb, from, copy);
if (err)
goto do_fault;