ixgbe: Add support for build_skb
This patch adds build_skb support to the Rx path. There are several advantages to this change. 1. It avoids the memcpy and skb->head allocation for small packets which improves performance by about 5% in my tests. 2. It avoids the memcpy, skb->head allocation, and eth_get_headlen for larger packets improving performance by about 10% in my tests. 3. For VXLAN packets it allows the full header to be in skb->data which improves the performance by as much as 30% in some of my tests. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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