skbuff: Add pskb_extract() helper function
A pattern of skb usage seen in modules such as RDS-TCP is to
extract `to_copy' bytes from the received TCP segment, starting
at some offset `off' into a new skb `clone'. This is done in
the ->data_ready callback, where the clone skb is queued up for rx on
the PF_RDS socket, while the parent TCP segment is returned unchanged
back to the TCP engine.
The existing code uses the sequence
clone = skb_clone(..);
pskb_pull(clone, off, ..);
pskb_trim(clone, to_copy, ..);
with the intention of discarding the first `off' bytes. However,
skb_clone() + pskb_pull() implies pksb_expand_head(), which ends
up doing a redundant memcpy of bytes that will then get discarded
in __pskb_pull_tail().
To avoid this inefficiency, this commit adds pskb_extract() that
creates the clone, and memcpy's only the relevant header/frag/frag_list
to the start of `clone'. pskb_trim() is then invoked to trim clone
down to the requested to_copy bytes.
Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index da0ace3..a1ce639 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -2986,6 +2986,8 @@
int skb_ensure_writable(struct sk_buff *skb, int write_len);
int skb_vlan_pop(struct sk_buff *skb);
int skb_vlan_push(struct sk_buff *skb, __be16 vlan_proto, u16 vlan_tci);
+struct sk_buff *pskb_extract(struct sk_buff *skb, int off, int to_copy,
+ gfp_t gfp);
static inline int memcpy_from_msg(void *data, struct msghdr *msg, int len)
{