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authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2019-03-20 11:02:06 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-03-20 11:18:55 -0700
commita350eccee5830d9a1f29e393a88dc05a15326d44 (patch)
tree606fd11e76d457dbcfcb197f573808cb625bee3f /include
parentpacket: rework packet_pick_tx_queue() to use common code selection (diff)
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net: remove 'fallback' argument from dev->ndo_select_queue()
After the previous patch, all the callers of ndo_select_queue() provide as a 'fallback' argument netdev_pick_tx. The only exceptions are nested calls to ndo_select_queue(), which pass down the 'fallback' available in the current scope - still netdev_pick_tx. We can drop such argument and replace fallback() invocation with netdev_pick_tx(). This avoids an indirect call per xmit packet in some scenarios (TCP syn, UDP unconnected, XDP generic, pktgen) with device drivers implementing such ndo. It also clean the code a bit. Tested with ixgbe and CONFIG_FCOE=m With pktgen using queue xmit: threads vanilla patched (kpps) (kpps) 1 2334 2428 2 4166 4278 4 7895 8100 v1 -> v2: - rebased after helper's name change Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h12
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index 0ff28db4239f..823762291ebf 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -986,8 +986,7 @@ struct devlink;
* those the driver believes to be appropriate.
*
* u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
- * struct net_device *sb_dev,
- * select_queue_fallback_t fallback);
+ * struct net_device *sb_dev);
* Called to decide which queue to use when device supports multiple
* transmit queues.
*
@@ -1268,8 +1267,7 @@ struct net_device_ops {
netdev_features_t features);
u16 (*ndo_select_queue)(struct net_device *dev,
struct sk_buff *skb,
- struct net_device *sb_dev,
- select_queue_fallback_t fallback);
+ struct net_device *sb_dev);
void (*ndo_change_rx_flags)(struct net_device *dev,
int flags);
void (*ndo_set_rx_mode)(struct net_device *dev);
@@ -2641,11 +2639,9 @@ void dev_close_many(struct list_head *head, bool unlink);
void dev_disable_lro(struct net_device *dev);
int dev_loopback_xmit(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *newskb);
u16 dev_pick_tx_zero(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
- struct net_device *sb_dev,
- select_queue_fallback_t fallback);
+ struct net_device *sb_dev);
u16 dev_pick_tx_cpu_id(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
- struct net_device *sb_dev,
- select_queue_fallback_t fallback);
+ struct net_device *sb_dev);
int dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb);
int dev_queue_xmit_accel(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *sb_dev);
int dev_direct_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, u16 queue_id);