mpls: Do not orphan the skb
We observed that TCP-pacing was falling back to the TCP-layer pacing instead of utilizing sch_fq for the pacing. This causes significant CPU-usage due to the hrtimer running on a per-TCP-connection basis. The issue is that mpls_xmit() calls skb_orphan() and thus sets skb->sk to NULL. Which implies that many of the goodies of TCP won't work. Pacing falls back to TCP-layer pacing. TCP Small Queues does not work, ... It is safe to remove this call to skb_orphan() in mpls_xmit() as there really is not reason for it to be there. It appears that this call to skb_orphan comes from the very initial implementation of MPLS. Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com> Reported-by: Craig Taylor <cmtaylor@apple.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240306181117.77419-1-cpaasch@apple.comSigned-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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