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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:51:23 +0100
From: Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@...com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC: "alexandre.torgue@...com" <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH (net-next.git) 13/18] stmmac: perf, remove modulo in stmmac_rx()
On 12/10/2015 6:11 AM, Giuseppe CAVALLARO wrote:
> On 12/9/2015 6:21 PM, David Laight wrote:
>> From: Giuseppe Cavallaro
>>> Sent: 09 December 2015 08:38
>>> The indexes into the ring buffer are always incremented, and
>>> the entry is accessed via doing a modulo to find the "real" index.
>>> Modulo is an expensive operation.
>>>
>>> This patch replaces the modulo with a simple if clamp.
>>> It helps improve stmmac RX path as it's being called inside RX loop.
>>
>> Is dma_rx_size always a power of 2 ?
>
> no
>
>> If so you can replace the % by & and remove the conditionals.
>>
>> If you have changed the read and write values to indexes
>> then you need to be certain that the 'ring full' and 'ring empty'
>> cases are correctly distinguished.
>
> this is implicitly managed by dirty and curr index.
... also the dma will fail with unavailable buffer.
peppe
>
> thx
> peppe
>
>>
>> David
>>
>
>
>
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