In xmit process, the variables are set many times. In fact, it is enough for these variables to be set once. After a long time test, the throughput performance is better than before.
CC: Srinivas Eeda <srinivas.e...@oracle.com> CC: Joe Jin <joe....@oracle.com> CC: Junxiao Bi <junxiao...@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun....@oracle.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c index 63a9e1e..22912e7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c @@ -2218,8 +2218,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t nv_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) /* setup the header buffer */ do { - prev_tx = put_tx; - prev_tx_ctx = np->put_tx_ctx; bcnt = (size > NV_TX2_TSO_MAX_SIZE) ? NV_TX2_TSO_MAX_SIZE : size; np->put_tx_ctx->dma = dma_map_single(&np->pci_dev->dev, skb->data + offset, bcnt, @@ -2254,8 +2252,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t nv_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) offset = 0; do { - prev_tx = put_tx; - prev_tx_ctx = np->put_tx_ctx; if (!start_tx_ctx) start_tx_ctx = tmp_tx_ctx = np->put_tx_ctx; @@ -2296,6 +2292,16 @@ static netdev_tx_t nv_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) } while (frag_size); } + if (unlikely(put_tx == np->first_tx.orig)) + prev_tx = np->last_tx.orig; + else + prev_tx = put_tx - 1; + + if (unlikely(np->put_tx_ctx == np->first_tx_ctx)) + prev_tx_ctx = np->last_tx_ctx; + else + prev_tx_ctx = np->put_tx_ctx - 1; + /* set last fragment flag */ prev_tx->flaglen |= cpu_to_le32(tx_flags_extra); @@ -2368,8 +2374,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t nv_start_xmit_optimized(struct sk_buff *skb, /* setup the header buffer */ do { - prev_tx = put_tx; - prev_tx_ctx = np->put_tx_ctx; bcnt = (size > NV_TX2_TSO_MAX_SIZE) ? NV_TX2_TSO_MAX_SIZE : size; np->put_tx_ctx->dma = dma_map_single(&np->pci_dev->dev, skb->data + offset, bcnt, @@ -2405,8 +2409,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t nv_start_xmit_optimized(struct sk_buff *skb, offset = 0; do { - prev_tx = put_tx; - prev_tx_ctx = np->put_tx_ctx; bcnt = (frag_size > NV_TX2_TSO_MAX_SIZE) ? NV_TX2_TSO_MAX_SIZE : frag_size; if (!start_tx_ctx) start_tx_ctx = tmp_tx_ctx = np->put_tx_ctx; @@ -2447,6 +2449,16 @@ static netdev_tx_t nv_start_xmit_optimized(struct sk_buff *skb, } while (frag_size); } + if (unlikely(put_tx == np->first_tx.ex)) + prev_tx = np->last_tx.ex; + else + prev_tx = put_tx - 1; + + if (unlikely(np->put_tx_ctx == np->first_tx_ctx)) + prev_tx_ctx = np->last_tx_ctx; + else + prev_tx_ctx = np->put_tx_ctx - 1; + /* set last fragment flag */ prev_tx->flaglen |= cpu_to_le32(NV_TX2_LASTPACKET); -- 2.7.4