linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: avoid indirect calls in L4 checksum calculation

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Date:   Thu, 30 May 2019 14:34:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mcroce@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: avoid indirect calls in L4 checksum
 calculation

From: Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 17:13:48 +0200

> Commit 283c16a2dfd3 ("indirect call wrappers: helpers to speed-up
> indirect calls of builtin") introduces some macros to avoid doing
> indirect calls.
> 
> Use these helpers to remove two indirect calls in the L4 checksum
> calculation for devices which don't have hardware support for it.
> 
> As a test I generate packets with pktgen out to a dummy interface
> with HW checksumming disabled, to have the checksum calculated in
> every sent packet.
> The packet rate measured with an i7-6700K CPU and a single pktgen
> thread raised from 6143 to 6608 Kpps, an increase by 7.5%
> 
> Suggested-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>

Applied.