Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 3/6] virtio-net: small optimization on free_old_xmit_skbs()

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 15:25 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> Accumulate the sent packets and sent bytes in local variables and perform a
> single u64_stats_update_begin/end() after.
> 
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/virtio_net.c |   12 ++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index 3d0ce44..a4d56b8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -833,17 +833,21 @@ static void free_old_xmit_skbs(struct send_queue *sq)
>  	unsigned int len;
>  	struct virtnet_info *vi = sq->vq->vdev->priv;
>  	struct virtnet_stats *stats = this_cpu_ptr(vi->stats);
> +	u64 tx_bytes = 0, tx_packets = 0;
>  
>  	while ((skb = virtqueue_get_buf(sq->vq, &len)) != NULL) {
>  		pr_debug("Sent skb %p\n", skb);
>  
> -		u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->tx_syncp);
> -		stats->tx_bytes += skb->len;
> -		stats->tx_packets++;
> -		u64_stats_update_end(&stats->tx_syncp);
> +		tx_bytes += skb->len;
> +		tx_packets++;
>  
>  		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
>  	}
> +
> +	u64_stats_update_begin(&stats->tx_syncp);
> +	stats->tx_bytes += tx_bytes;
> +	stats->tx_packets =+ tx_packets;

	
	stats->tx_packets += tx_packets;


> +	u64_stats_update_end(&stats->tx_syncp);
>  }
>  
>  static int xmit_skb(struct send_queue *sq, struct sk_buff *skb)


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