asix: avoid copies in tx path
I noticed excess calls to skb_copy_expand() or memmove() in asix driver. This driver needs to push 4 bytes in front of frame (packet_len) and maybe add 4 bytes after the end (if padlen is 4) So it should set needed_headroom & needed_tailroom to avoid copies. But its not enough, because many packets are cloned before entering asix_tx_fixup() and this driver use skb_cloned() as a lazy way to check if it can push and put additional bytes in frame. Avoid skb_copy_expand() expensive call, using following rules : - We are allowed to push 4 bytes in headroom if skb_header_cloned() is false (and if we have 4 bytes of headroom) - We are allowed to put 4 bytes at tail if skb_cloned() is false (and if we have 4 bytes of tailroom) TCP packets for example are cloned, but skb_header_release() was called in tcp stack, allowing us to use headroom for our needs. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Allan Chou <allan@asix.com.tw> Cc: Trond Wuellner <trond@chromium.org> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org> Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org> Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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