netdev - Re: [PATCH|[NET]: migrate HARD_TX

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Date:	Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:28:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH|[NET]: migrate HARD_TX_LOCK to header file

From: jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:48:45 -0400

> I wanted to get rid of the extrenous cpu arguement and ended moving this
> to the header files since it looks common enough an operation that could
> be used elsewhere.
> It is a trivial change - i could resend with leaving it in dev.c and
> just getting rid of the cpu arguement.

The only reason the cpu argument is superfluous is because
we don't provide a way to pass it on down to netif_tx_lock().

So instead netif_tx_lock() recomputes that value in this case which is
extra unnecessary work.

I would instead suggest, in netdevice.h:

static inline void __netif_tx_lock(struct net_device *dev, int cpu)
{
	spin_lock(&dev->_xmit_lock);
	dev->xmit_lock_owner = cpu;
}

static inline void netif_tx_lock(struct net_device *dev)
{
	__netif_tx_lock(dev, smp_processor_id());
}

And make the HARD_TX_LOCK() call __netif_tx_lock() and pass in
the already computed 'cpu' parameter.

Thanks.
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