netdev - [PATCH net-next] tun: do not compute the rxhash, if not needed

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Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:18:16 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] tun: do not compute the rxhash, if not needed

Currently, the tun driver, in absence of an eBPF steering program,
always compute the rxhash in its rx path, even when such value
is later unused due to additional checks (

This changeset moves the all the related checks just before the
__skb_get_hash_symmetric(), so that the latter is no more computed
when unneeded.

Also replace an unneeded RCU section with rcu_access_pointer().

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/net/tun.c | 15 ++++++---------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 1e58be152d5c..091ace726763 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -525,11 +525,6 @@ static void tun_flow_update(struct tun_struct *tun, u32 rxhash,
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 
-	/* We may get a very small possibility of OOO during switching, not
-	 * worth to optimize.*/
-	if (tun->numqueues == 1 || tfile->detached)
-		goto unlock;
-
 	e = tun_flow_find(head, rxhash);
 	if (likely(e)) {
 		/* TODO: keep queueing to old queue until it's empty? */
@@ -548,7 +543,6 @@ static void tun_flow_update(struct tun_struct *tun, u32 rxhash,
 		spin_unlock_bh(&tun->lock);
 	}
 
-unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
@@ -1937,10 +1931,13 @@ static ssize_t tun_get_user(struct tun_struct *tun, struct tun_file *tfile,
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 	}
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	if (!rcu_dereference(tun->steering_prog))
+	/* Compute the costly rx hash only if needed for flow updates.
+	 * We may get a very small possibility of OOO during switching, not
+	 * worth to optimize.
+	 */
+	if (!rcu_access_pointer(tun->steering_prog) && tun->numqueues > 1 &&
+	    !tfile->detached)
 		rxhash = __skb_get_hash_symmetric(skb);
-	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	if (frags) {
 		/* Exercise flow dissector code path. */
-- 
2.14.3