From 53ee9142717714881fe0b4292b237e1707246f2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tariq Toukan Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:09:10 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5e: Switch to using napi_build_skb() Use napi_build_skb() which uses NAPI percpu caches to obtain skbuff_head instead of inplace allocation. napi_build_skb() calls napi_skb_cache_get(), which returns a cached skb, or allocates a bulk of NAPI_SKB_CACHE_BULK (16) if cache is empty. Performance test: TCP single stream, single ring, single core, default MTU (1500B). Before: 26.5 Gbits/sec After: 30.1 Gbits/sec (+13.6%) Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan Reviewed-by: Gal Pressman Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed Reviewed-by: Maciej Fijalkowski Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c index b2c7ec4692f0c..0af02cc0d5adb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_rx.c @@ -1556,7 +1556,7 @@ struct sk_buff *mlx5e_build_linear_skb(struct mlx5e_rq *rq, void *va, u32 frag_size, u16 headroom, u32 cqe_bcnt, u32 metasize) { - struct sk_buff *skb = build_skb(va, frag_size); + struct sk_buff *skb = napi_build_skb(va, frag_size); if (unlikely(!skb)) { rq->stats->buff_alloc_err++; -- 2.30.2