From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Xuegang Lu <xuegang.lu@airoha.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: airoha: Reserve RX headroom to avoid skb reallocation
Date: Wed, 13 May 2026 17:03:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260513-airoha-rx-headroom-v1-1-bd87798e422d@kernel.org> (raw)
Reserve NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN bytes of headroom for received packets
to avoid skb head reallocation when pushing protocol headers into the skb.
Tested-by: Xuegang Lu <xuegang.lu@airoha.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c | 14 ++++++++------
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
index f71fb18197ec..5a027cc7ffcb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
@@ -543,9 +543,10 @@ static int airoha_qdma_fill_rx_queue(struct airoha_queue *q)
q->queued++;
nframes++;
+ offset += AIROHA_RX_HEADROOM;
e->buf = page_address(page) + offset;
e->dma_addr = page_pool_get_dma_addr(page) + offset;
- e->dma_len = SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(q->buf_size);
+ e->dma_len = SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(AIROHA_RX_LEN(q->buf_size));
val = FIELD_PREP(QDMA_DESC_LEN_MASK, e->dma_len);
WRITE_ONCE(desc->ctrl, cpu_to_le32(val));
@@ -611,13 +612,12 @@ static int airoha_qdma_rx_process(struct airoha_queue *q, int budget)
q->tail = (q->tail + 1) % q->ndesc;
q->queued--;
- dma_sync_single_for_cpu(eth->dev, e->dma_addr,
- SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(q->buf_size), dir);
+ dma_sync_single_for_cpu(eth->dev, e->dma_addr, e->dma_len,
+ dir);
page = virt_to_head_page(e->buf);
len = FIELD_GET(QDMA_DESC_LEN_MASK, desc_ctrl);
- data_len = q->skb ? q->buf_size
- : SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(q->buf_size);
+ data_len = q->skb ? AIROHA_RX_LEN(q->buf_size) : e->dma_len;
if (!len || data_len < len)
goto free_frag;
@@ -627,10 +627,12 @@ static int airoha_qdma_rx_process(struct airoha_queue *q, int budget)
port = eth->ports[p];
if (!q->skb) { /* first buffer */
- q->skb = napi_build_skb(e->buf, q->buf_size);
+ q->skb = napi_build_skb(e->buf - AIROHA_RX_HEADROOM,
+ q->buf_size);
if (!q->skb)
goto free_frag;
+ skb_reserve(q->skb, AIROHA_RX_HEADROOM);
__skb_put(q->skb, len);
skb_mark_for_recycle(q->skb);
q->skb->dev = port->dev;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h
index 58530d096de7..d3781103abb5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
#define AIROHA_FE_MC_MAX_VLAN_TABLE 64
#define AIROHA_FE_MC_MAX_VLAN_PORT 16
#define AIROHA_NUM_TX_IRQ 2
+#define AIROHA_RX_HEADROOM (NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN)
+#define AIROHA_RX_LEN(_n) ((_n) - AIROHA_RX_HEADROOM)
#define HW_DSCP_NUM 2048
#define IRQ_QUEUE_LEN(_n) ((_n) ? 1024 : 2048)
#define TX_DSCP_NUM 1024
---
base-commit: 8ebd24a7822cbae25beeafba49b2159d6a68a5f2
change-id: 20260513-airoha-rx-headroom-4d19ca848a14
Best regards,
--
Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
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