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TCP allocates 'fast clones' skbs for packets in tx queues. Currently, __alloc_skb() initializes the companion fclone field to SKB_FCLONE_CLONE, and leaves other fields untouched. It makes sense to defer this init much later in skb_clone(), because all fclone fields are copied and hot in cpu caches at that time. This removes one cache line miss in __alloc_skb(), cost seen on an host with 256 cpus all competing on memory accesses. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.