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Merge branch 'udp-fwd-mem-sched-on-dequeue'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 7 Nov 2016 18:24:42 +0000 (13:24 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 7 Nov 2016 18:24:42 +0000 (13:24 -0500)
commitfc13fd3986257882a69581c3c8203221053f474d
treeb6e4dd83dcf3ac82c3d7517b035583b44cc9f655
parentcd2c0f454039ad303b54653c56ebc22ffd856200
parent7c13f97ffde63cc792c49ec1513f3974f2f05229
Merge branch 'udp-fwd-mem-sched-on-dequeue'

Paolo Abeni says:

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udp: do fwd memory scheduling on dequeue

After commit 850cbaddb52d ("udp: use it's own memory accounting schema"),
the udp code needs to acquire twice the receive queue spinlock on dequeue.

This patch series remove the need for the second lock at skb free time,
moving the udp memory scheduling inside the dequeue operation; the skb
destructor field is not used anymore and an additional sk argument is added
to ip_cmsg_recv_offset() to cope with null skb->sk after dequeue.

Many thanks to Eric Dumazed for suggesting pretty all much the above.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>