virtio_net: replace netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() with napi_alloc_skb()
authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:44:00 +0000 (15:44 +0100)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Thu, 17 Mar 2016 15:42:00 +0000 (17:42 +0200)
This gives small but noticeable rx performance improvement (2-3%)
and will allow exploiting future napi improvement.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
drivers/net/virtio_net.c

index 767ab11a6e9f67ce774d086101daeb1eb91838ce..a43631696bcbb2aa3ed0e436cfd88011b3b3c35e 100644 (file)
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *page_to_skb(struct virtnet_info *vi,
        p = page_address(page) + offset;
 
        /* copy small packet so we can reuse these pages for small data */
-       skb = netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(vi->dev, GOOD_COPY_LEN);
+       skb = napi_alloc_skb(&rq->napi, GOOD_COPY_LEN);
        if (unlikely(!skb))
                return NULL;