net: introduce __skb_header_release()
While profiling TCP stack, I noticed one useless atomic operation in tcp_sendmsg(), caused by skb_header_release(). It turns out all current skb_header_release() users have a fresh skb, that no other user can see, so we can avoid one atomic operation. Introduce __skb_header_release() to clearly document this. This gave me a 1.5 % improvement on TCP_RR workload. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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