mpls: Reduce skb re-allocations due to skb_cow()
mpls_xmit() needs to prepend the MPLS-labels to the packet. That implies one needs to make sure there is enough space for it in the headers. Calling skb_cow() implies however that one wants to change even the playload part of the packet (which is not true for MPLS). Thus, call skb_cow_head() instead, which is what other tunnelling protocols do. Running a server with this comm it entirely removed the calls to pskb_expand_head() from the callstack in mpls_xmit() thus having significant CPU-reduction, especially at peak times. Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com> Reported-by: Craig Taylor <cmtaylor@apple.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240815161201.22021-1-cpaasch@apple.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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