linux-stable/net/ethernet
Paolo Abeni 72a338bcc6 net: core: rework basic flow dissection helper
When the core networking needs to detect the transport offset in a given
packet and parse it explicitly, a full-blown flow_keys struct is used for
storage.
This patch introduces a smaller keys store, rework the basic flow dissect
helper to use it, and apply this new helper where possible - namely in
skb_probe_transport_header(). The used flow dissector data structures
are renamed to match more closely the new role.

The above gives ~50% performance improvement in micro benchmarking around
skb_probe_transport_header() and ~30% around eth_get_headlen(), mostly due
to the smaller memset. Small, but measurable improvement is measured also
in macro benchmarking.

v1 -> v2: use the new helper in eth_get_headlen() and skb_get_poff(),
  as per DaveM suggestion

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-08 00:02:36 -04:00
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eth.c net: core: rework basic flow dissection helper 2018-05-08 00:02:36 -04:00
Makefile ipx: move peII functions 2012-07-19 10:48:00 -07:00