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[net-next-2.6,2/4] e1000e: reduce writes of RX producer ptr

Message ID 20100506000247.8042.97827.stgit@localhost.localdomain
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Kirsher, Jeffrey T May 6, 2010, 12:02 a.m. UTC 
From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>

Reduce number of writes to RX producer pointer.   When alloc'ing RX
buffers, only write the RX producer pointer once every
E1000_RX_BUFFER_WRITE (16) buffers created.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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 drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c |   57 +++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)


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David Miller May 6, 2010, 7:19 a.m. UTC | #1 
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 17:02:49 -0700

> From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
> 
> Reduce number of writes to RX producer pointer.   When alloc'ing RX
> buffers, only write the RX producer pointer once every
> E1000_RX_BUFFER_WRITE (16) buffers created.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
> Acked-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

Applied.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
index 1eb9b59..b767dbb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -548,26 +548,23 @@  map_skb:
 		rx_desc = E1000_RX_DESC(*rx_ring, i);
 		rx_desc->buffer_addr = cpu_to_le64(buffer_info->dma);
 
+		if (unlikely(!(i & (E1000_RX_BUFFER_WRITE - 1)))) {
+			/*
+			 * Force memory writes to complete before letting h/w
+			 * know there are new descriptors to fetch.  (Only
+			 * applicable for weak-ordered memory model archs,
+			 * such as IA-64).
+			 */
+			wmb();
+			writel(i, adapter->hw.hw_addr + rx_ring->tail);
+		}
 		i++;
 		if (i == rx_ring->count)
 			i = 0;
 		buffer_info = &rx_ring->buffer_info[i];
 	}
 
-	if (rx_ring->next_to_use != i) {
-		rx_ring->next_to_use = i;
-		if (i-- == 0)
-			i = (rx_ring->count - 1);
-
-		/*
-		 * Force memory writes to complete before letting h/w
-		 * know there are new descriptors to fetch.  (Only
-		 * applicable for weak-ordered memory model archs,
-		 * such as IA-64).
-		 */
-		wmb();
-		writel(i, adapter->hw.hw_addr + rx_ring->tail);
-	}
+	rx_ring->next_to_use = i;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -649,6 +646,17 @@  static void e1000_alloc_rx_buffers_ps(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
 
 		rx_desc->read.buffer_addr[0] = cpu_to_le64(buffer_info->dma);
 
+		if (unlikely(!(i & (E1000_RX_BUFFER_WRITE - 1)))) {
+			/*
+			 * Force memory writes to complete before letting h/w
+			 * know there are new descriptors to fetch.  (Only
+			 * applicable for weak-ordered memory model archs,
+			 * such as IA-64).
+			 */
+			wmb();
+			writel(i<<1, adapter->hw.hw_addr + rx_ring->tail);
+		}
+
 		i++;
 		if (i == rx_ring->count)
 			i = 0;
@@ -656,26 +664,7 @@  static void e1000_alloc_rx_buffers_ps(struct e1000_adapter *adapter,
 	}
 
 no_buffers:
-	if (rx_ring->next_to_use != i) {
-		rx_ring->next_to_use = i;
-
-		if (!(i--))
-			i = (rx_ring->count - 1);
-
-		/*
-		 * Force memory writes to complete before letting h/w
-		 * know there are new descriptors to fetch.  (Only
-		 * applicable for weak-ordered memory model archs,
-		 * such as IA-64).
-		 */
-		wmb();
-		/*
-		 * Hardware increments by 16 bytes, but packet split
-		 * descriptors are 32 bytes...so we increment tail
-		 * twice as much.
-		 */
-		writel(i<<1, adapter->hw.hw_addr + rx_ring->tail);
-	}
+	rx_ring->next_to_use = i;
 }
 
 /**