As mentioned half a year ago, we better switch mlx4 driver to order-0
allocations and page recycling.
This reduces vulnerability surface thanks to better skb->truesize tracking
and provides better performance in most cases.
Worth noting this patch series deletes more than 100 lines of code ;)
Eric Dumazet (9):
mlx4: use __skb_fill_page_desc()
mlx4: dma_dir is a mlx4_en_priv attribute
mlx4: remove order field from mlx4_en_frag_info
mlx4: get rid of frag_prefix_size
mlx4: rx_headroom is a per port attribute
mlx4: reduce rx ring page_cache size
mlx4: removal of frag_sizes[]
mlx4: use order-0 pages for RX
mlx4: add page recycling in receive path
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 350 +++++++++------------------
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_tx.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h | 28 +--
3 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 253 deletions(-)
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