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Commit 87151b86 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom



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.

Turns out part of the problem comes from pskb_expand_head() not using
ksize() to get exact head size given by kmalloc(). Doing the same thing
than __alloc_skb() allows more tailroom in skb and can prevent future
reallocations.

As a bonus, struct skb_shared_info becomes cache line aligned.

Reported-by: default avatarMarc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Tested-by: default avatarMarc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 996304bb
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