Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/2] pskb_extract() helper function.

[Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 06:21:07AM -0700, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> This patchset follows up on the discussion in
>  https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg105090.html
> 
> For RDS-TCP, we have to deal with the full gamut of
> nonlinear sk_buffs, including all the frag_list variants.
> Also, the parent skb has to remain unchanged, while the clone
> is queued for Rx on the PF_RDS socket. 
> 
> Patch 1 of this patchset adds a pskb_extract() function that 
> does all this without the redundant memcpy's in pskb_expand_head() 
> and __pskb_pull_tail().
> 
> A further optimization is also possible by inlining pskb_trim()
> itself into pskb_carve() and thus avoiding the needless copy
> of trailer frags/pages that will then get trimmed away.  I am
> deferring that optimization  for the next iteration, and would
> like to get feedback on this first pass, which by itself gives
> a noticeable perf boost.

I like this idea. We can also make use of it in SCTP.

  Marcelo