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Message-ID: <20131223100840.000014a5@unknown> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:08:40 -0800 From: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com> To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> CC: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH 01/21] net: slight optimization of addr compare for some modules On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:20:37 -0800 Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> wrote: > On 12/22/2013 09:09 PM, Ding Tianhong wrote: > > Use the recently added and possibly more efficient > > ether_addr_equal_unaligned to instead of memcmp. > > > > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> > > Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org > > Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org > > Cc: e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net > > Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com> > > --- > > drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/3com/3c509.c | 3 +-- > > drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_sp.c | 10 > > ++++------ drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_sriov.c | > > 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_vfpf.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb3/l2t.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_pp.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igbvf/netdev.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c | 3 +-- > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 4 ++-- > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ksz884x.c | 9 > > ++++----- drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-main.c | > > 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/packetengines/yellowfin.c | 8 > > ++------ drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c | 2 > > +- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_hw.c | 4 ++-- > > drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c | 4 ++-- > > drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c | 4 ++-- > > drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/seeq/sgiseeq.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw_ale.c | 2 +- > > drivers/net/fddi/skfp/fplustm.c | 3 ++- > > drivers/net/plip/plip.c | 2 +- > > net/caif/cfrfml.c | 2 +- > > 27 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) > > What is it you are trying to optimize for, size or speed? Most of > these calls are in slow path. Replacing the memcmp with an inline > operation may provide little to no gain in terms of speed and in many > cases as you might actually be increasing the resultant driver size. > > Also I would recommend reviewing the addresses you are comparing. It > is likely that you could use ether_addr_equal or compare_ether_addr > in many cases as I suspect a number of spots are using 16b aligned > MAC addresses for both operands. User ether_addr_equal. compare_ether_addr was recently removed from the upstream kernel - as I discovered to my chagrin late one recent Friday evening while trying to get a build done. - Greg > > Thanks, > > Alex > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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