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net: introduce __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align
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RX rings should use GFP_KERNEL allocations if possible, add
__netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() helper to ease this.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored and David S. Miller committed Jul 12, 2011
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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions include/linux/skbuff.h
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Expand Up @@ -1579,16 +1579,22 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb(struct net_device *dev,
return __netdev_alloc_skb(dev, length, GFP_ATOMIC);
}

static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int length)
static inline struct sk_buff *__netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int length, gfp_t gfp)
{
struct sk_buff *skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, length + NET_IP_ALIGN);
struct sk_buff *skb = __netdev_alloc_skb(dev, length + NET_IP_ALIGN, gfp);

if (NET_IP_ALIGN && skb)
skb_reserve(skb, NET_IP_ALIGN);
return skb;
}

static inline struct sk_buff *netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(struct net_device *dev,
unsigned int length)
{
return __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align(dev, length, GFP_ATOMIC);
}

/**
* __netdev_alloc_page - allocate a page for ps-rx on a specific device
* @dev: network device to receive on
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