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[net-next,1/1] forcedeth: optimize the rx with likely

Message ID 1514269370-29241-1-git-send-email-yanjun.zhu@oracle.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series [net-next,1/1] forcedeth: optimize the rx with likely | expand

Commit Message

Zhu Yanjun Dec. 26, 2017, 6:22 a.m. UTC
In the rx fastpath, the function netdev_alloc_skb rarely fails.
Therefore, a likely() optimization is added to this error check
conditional.

CC: Srinivas Eeda <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
CC: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
CC: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller Jan. 2, 2018, 6:30 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 01:22:50 -0500

> In the rx fastpath, the function netdev_alloc_skb rarely fails.
> Therefore, a likely() optimization is added to this error check
> conditional.
> 
> CC: Srinivas Eeda <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
> CC: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
> CC: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>

Applied.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
index 49d6d78..a79b9f8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
@@ -1817,7 +1817,7 @@  static int nv_alloc_rx(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	while (np->put_rx.orig != less_rx) {
 		struct sk_buff *skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, np->rx_buf_sz + NV_RX_ALLOC_PAD);
-		if (skb) {
+		if (likely(skb)) {
 			np->put_rx_ctx->skb = skb;
 			np->put_rx_ctx->dma = dma_map_single(&np->pci_dev->dev,
 							     skb->data,
@@ -1858,7 +1858,7 @@  static int nv_alloc_rx_optimized(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	while (np->put_rx.ex != less_rx) {
 		struct sk_buff *skb = netdev_alloc_skb(dev, np->rx_buf_sz + NV_RX_ALLOC_PAD);
-		if (skb) {
+		if (likely(skb)) {
 			np->put_rx_ctx->skb = skb;
 			np->put_rx_ctx->dma = dma_map_single(&np->pci_dev->dev,
 							     skb->data,