[PATCH net-next v5 02/12] net: airoha: Reserve RX headroom to avoid skb reallocation
Lorenzo Bianconi
lorenzo at kernel.org
Sat May 9 06:05:27 PDT 2026
Reserve NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN bytes of headroom for received packets
to avoid skb head reallocation when pushing protocol headers into the skb.
Tested-by: Xuegang Lu <xuegang.lu at airoha.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo at kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c | 8 ++++++--
drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
index f71fb18197ec..8a941c58d1b4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.c
@@ -543,9 +543,11 @@ static int airoha_qdma_fill_rx_queue(struct airoha_queue *q)
q->queued++;
nframes++;
+ offset += AIROHA_RX_HEADROOM;
e->buf = page_address(page) + offset;
e->dma_addr = page_pool_get_dma_addr(page) + offset;
- e->dma_len = SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(q->buf_size);
+ e->dma_len = SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(q->buf_size -
+ AIROHA_RX_HEADROOM);
val = FIELD_PREP(QDMA_DESC_LEN_MASK, e->dma_len);
WRITE_ONCE(desc->ctrl, cpu_to_le32(val));
@@ -627,10 +629,12 @@ static int airoha_qdma_rx_process(struct airoha_queue *q, int budget)
port = eth->ports[p];
if (!q->skb) { /* first buffer */
- q->skb = napi_build_skb(e->buf, q->buf_size);
+ q->skb = napi_build_skb(e->buf - AIROHA_RX_HEADROOM,
+ q->buf_size);
if (!q->skb)
goto free_frag;
+ skb_reserve(q->skb, AIROHA_RX_HEADROOM);
__skb_put(q->skb, len);
skb_mark_for_recycle(q->skb);
q->skb->dev = port->dev;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h
index 58530d096de7..6cd589b790b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_eth.h
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
#define AIROHA_FE_MC_MAX_VLAN_TABLE 64
#define AIROHA_FE_MC_MAX_VLAN_PORT 16
#define AIROHA_NUM_TX_IRQ 2
+#define AIROHA_RX_HEADROOM (NET_SKB_PAD + NET_IP_ALIGN)
#define HW_DSCP_NUM 2048
#define IRQ_QUEUE_LEN(_n) ((_n) ? 1024 : 2048)
#define TX_DSCP_NUM 1024
--
2.54.0
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