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Eric Dumazet authored
This patch converts tg3 driver, one of our reference drivers, to use new build_skb() api in frag mode. Instead of using kmalloc() to allocate the memory block that will be used by build_skb() as skb->head, we use a page fragment. This is a followup of patch "net: allow skb->head to be a page fragment" This allows GRO, TCP coalescing, and splice() to be more efficient. Incidentally, this also removes SLUB slow path contention in kfree() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Cc: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> Cc: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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