net: introduce __skb_header_release()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:29:32 +0000 (16:29 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:40:06 +0000 (15:40 -0400)
commitf4a775d14489a801a5b8b0540e23ab82e2703091
treefea57ec3004b0586f0fc25f4cf3f0dc8631dcb5f
parentaebac744932439b5f869869f07f406a9cced465d
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>
include/linux/skbuff.h
net/core/skbuff.c
net/ipv4/tcp.c
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c