Knowing the memory size backing the packet/xdp_frame data area, and
knowing it already have reserved room for skb_shared_info, simplifies
using build_skb significantly.

With this change we no-longer lie about the SKB truesize, but more
importantly a significant larger skb_tailroom is now provided, e.g. when
drivers uses a full PAGE_SIZE. This extra tailroom (in linear area) can be
used by the network stack when coalescing SKBs (e.g. in skb_try_coalesce,
see TCP cases where tcp_queue_rcv() can 'eat' skb).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <bro...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <t...@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/bpf/cpumap.c |   21 +++------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/cpumap.c b/kernel/bpf/cpumap.c
index 3fe0b006d2d2..a71790dab12d 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/cpumap.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/cpumap.c
@@ -162,25 +162,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *cpu_map_build_skb(struct 
bpf_cpu_map_entry *rcpu,
        /* Part of headroom was reserved to xdpf */
        hard_start_headroom = sizeof(struct xdp_frame) +  xdpf->headroom;
 
-       /* build_skb need to place skb_shared_info after SKB end, and
-        * also want to know the memory "truesize".  Thus, need to
-        * know the memory frame size backing xdp_buff.
-        *
-        * XDP was designed to have PAGE_SIZE frames, but this
-        * assumption is not longer true with ixgbe and i40e.  It
-        * would be preferred to set frame_size to 2048 or 4096
-        * depending on the driver.
-        *   frame_size = 2048;
-        *   frame_len  = frame_size - sizeof(*xdp_frame);
-        *
-        * Instead, with info avail, skb_shared_info in placed after
-        * packet len.  This, unfortunately fakes the truesize.
-        * Another disadvantage of this approach, the skb_shared_info
-        * is not at a fixed memory location, with mixed length
-        * packets, which is bad for cache-line hotness.
+       /* Memory size backing xdp_frame data already have reserved
+        * room for build_skb to place skb_shared_info in tailroom.
         */
-       frame_size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(xdpf->len + hard_start_headroom) +
-               SKB_DATA_ALIGN(sizeof(struct skb_shared_info));
+       frame_size = xdpf->frame_sz;
 
        pkt_data_start = xdpf->data - hard_start_headroom;
        skb = build_skb_around(skb, pkt_data_start, frame_size);


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