From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> sk_drops can be an often written field, do not read it unless application showed interest.
Note that sk_drops can be read via inet_diag, so applications can avoid getting this info from every received packet. In the future, 'reading' sk_drops might require folding per node or per cpu fields, and thus become even more expensive than today. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pab...@redhat.com> --- include/net/sock.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h index 1749e38d03014558ac882b5d1fb37b11ac5e6705..be167c1483f4a5a74b466f135bbfdf4281e5bef4 100644 --- a/include/net/sock.h +++ b/include/net/sock.h @@ -2160,7 +2160,8 @@ struct sock_skb_cb { static inline void sock_skb_set_dropcount(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) { - SOCK_SKB_CB(skb)->dropcount = atomic_read(&sk->sk_drops); + SOCK_SKB_CB(skb)->dropcount = sock_flag(sk, SOCK_RXQ_OVFL) ? + atomic_read(&sk->sk_drops) : 0; } static inline void sk_drops_add(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)