vxlan_find_mac() unconditionally set f->used for every packet,
this cause a cache miss for every packet, since remote, hlist
and used of vxlan_fdb share the same cacheline.
With this change f->used is set only if not equal to jiffies
This gives up to 5% speed-up with small packets.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <zhangy...@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongq...@baidu.com>
---
drivers/net/vxlan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index ababba37d735..e5d236595206 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ static struct vxlan_fdb *vxlan_find_mac(struct vxlan_dev
*vxlan,
struct vxlan_fdb *f;
f = __vxlan_find_mac(vxlan, mac, vni);
- if (f)
+ if (f && f->used != jiffies)
f->used = jiffies;
return f;
--
2.16.2
