netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 4/5] net-sysfs: add support for device-specific rx queue sysfs attributes

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:51:07 -0800
From:	Michael Dalton <mwdalton@...gle.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
	lf-virt <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 4/5] net-sysfs: add support for
 device-specific rx queue sysfs attributes

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:
> It's simpler but we don't know if it's faster (and I don't believe that
> matters for the current usage).
>
> If one of these functions starts to be used in the data path, at that
> point it could be worth optimising, e.g. by doing a test for queue 0 and
> only then doing the pointer arithmetic with its implicit division.
Good catch, my statement above is incorrect. We don't know if this change
is a performance win, and it does introduce an implicit div. I agree this
function is not currently performance critical and is used only by for
reporting values to sysfs.

Best,

Mike
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