[PATCH net-next 3/4] gve: pull network headers into skb linear part
From: Joshua Washington
Date: Tue Mar 03 2026 - 14:57:54 EST
From: Ankit Garg <nktgrg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Currently, in DQO mode with hw-gro enabled, entire received packet is
placed into skb fragments when header-split is disabled. This leaves
the skb linear part empty, forcing the networking stack to do multiple
small memory copies to access eth, IP and TCP headers.
This patch adds a single memcpy to put all headers into linear portion
before packet reaches the SW GRO stack; thus eliminating multiple
smaller memcpy calls.
Additionally, the criteria for calling napi_gro_frags() was updated.
Since skb->head is now populated, we instead check if the SKB is the
cached NAPI scratchpad to ensure we continue using the zero-allocation
path.
Signed-off-by: Ankit Garg <nktgrg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joshua Washington <joshwash@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c
index 5ba893e5..ac44f50d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_rx_dqo.c
@@ -946,6 +946,8 @@ static int gve_rx_complete_rsc(struct sk_buff *skb,
{
struct skb_shared_info *shinfo = skb_shinfo(skb);
int rsc_segments, rsc_seg_len, hdr_len;
+ skb_frag_t *frag;
+ void *va;
/* HW-GRO only coalesces TCP. */
if (ptype.l4_type != GVE_L4_TYPE_TCP)
@@ -973,10 +975,20 @@ static int gve_rx_complete_rsc(struct sk_buff *skb,
/* HW-GRO packets are guaranteed to have complete TCP/IP
* headers in frag[0] when header-split is not enabled.
*/
- hdr_len = eth_get_headlen(skb->dev,
- skb_frag_address(&shinfo->frags[0]),
- skb_frag_size(&shinfo->frags[0]));
+ frag = &skb_shinfo(skb)->frags[0];
+ va = skb_frag_address(frag);
+ hdr_len =
+ eth_get_headlen(skb->dev, va, skb_frag_size(frag));
rsc_segments = DIV_ROUND_UP(skb->len - hdr_len, rsc_seg_len);
+ skb_copy_to_linear_data(skb, va, hdr_len);
+ skb_frag_size_sub(frag, hdr_len);
+ /* Verify we didn't empty the fragment completely as that could
+ * otherwise lead to page leaks.
+ */
+ DEBUG_NET_WARN_ON_ONCE(!skb_frag_size(frag));
+ skb_frag_off_add(frag, hdr_len);
+ skb->data_len -= hdr_len;
+ skb->tail += hdr_len;
}
shinfo->gso_size = rsc_seg_len;
shinfo->gso_segs = rsc_segments;
@@ -1013,7 +1025,7 @@ static int gve_rx_complete_skb(struct gve_rx_ring *rx, struct napi_struct *napi,
return err;
}
- if (skb_headlen(rx->ctx.skb_head) == 0)
+ if (rx->ctx.skb_head == napi->skb)
napi_gro_frags(napi);
else
napi_gro_receive(napi, rx->ctx.skb_head);
--
2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog