Commit 70355602 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller

net: release skb->dst in sock_queue_rcv_skb()

When queuing a skb to sk->sk_receive_queue, we can release its dst,
not anymore needed.  Since current cpu did the dst_hold(), refcount is
probably still hot int this cpu caches.

This avoids readers to access the original dst to decrement its
refcount, possibly a long time after packet reception. This should
speedup UDP and RAW receive path.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent dd24c001
......@@ -289,7 +289,11 @@ int sock_queue_rcv_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
skb->dev = NULL;
skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk);
/*
* release dst right now while its hot
*/
dst_release(skb->dst);
skb->dst = NULL;
/* Cache the SKB length before we tack it onto the receive
* queue. Once it is added it no longer belongs to us and
* may be freed by other threads of control pulling packets
......
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