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Eric Dumazet acb600def2 net: remove skb recycling 
Over time, skb recycling infrastructure got litle interest and
many bugs. Generic rx path skb allocation is now using page
fragments for efficient GRO / TCP coalescing, and recyling
a tx skb for rx path is not worth the pain.

Last identified bug is that fat skbs can be recycled
and it can endup using high order pages after few iterations.

With help from Maxime Bizon, who pointed out that commit
87151b8689 (net: allow pskb_expand_head() to get maximum tailroom)
introduced this regression for recycled skbs.

Instead of fixing this bug, lets remove skb recycling.

Drivers wanting really hot skbs should use build_skb() anyway,
to allocate/populate sk_buff right before netif_receive_skb()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
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fs_enet drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fs_enet: fix error return code 2012-08-14 17:00:56 -07:00
fec.c drivers/net/ethernet: Fix (nearly-)kernel-doc comments for various functions 2012-07-10 23:13:46 -07:00
fec.h net: fsl: fec: handle 10Mbps speed in RMII mode 2012-01-12 20:05:28 -08:00
fec_mpc52xx.c fec_mpc52xx: fix timestamp filtering 2012-06-02 17:09:08 -04:00
fec_mpc52xx.h drivers/net: fix up stale paths from driver reorg 2012-01-30 12:54:40 -05:00
fec_mpc52xx_phy.c
fsl_pq_mdio.c net/fsl_pq_mdio: add support for the Fman 1G MDIO controller 2012-08-30 13:29:32 -04:00
gianfar.c net: remove skb recycling 2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
gianfar.h net: remove skb recycling 2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
gianfar_ethtool.c gianfar: fix phc index build failure 2012-09-21 13:45:29 -04:00
gianfar_ptp.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-09-28 14:40:49 -04:00
gianfar_sysfs.c drivers/net: fix up stale paths from driver reorg 2012-01-30 12:54:40 -05:00
Kconfig net/fsl: introduce Freescale 10G MDIO driver 2012-08-24 12:42:42 -04:00
Makefile net/fsl: introduce Freescale 10G MDIO driver 2012-08-24 12:42:42 -04:00
ucc_geth.c net: remove skb recycling 2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
ucc_geth.h net: remove skb recycling 2012-10-07 00:40:54 -04:00
ucc_geth_ethtool.c ucc_geth: Support the get_ts_info ethtool method. 2012-04-04 05:28:48 -04:00
xgmac_mdio.c net/fsl: introduce Freescale 10G MDIO driver 2012-08-24 12:42:42 -04:00