netdev - [PATCH net-next 1/1] forcedeth: optimize the xmit with unlikely

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Message-Id: <1511851342-5532-1-git-send-email-yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 01:42:22 -0500
From:   Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@...cle.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tremyfr@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/1] forcedeth: optimize the xmit with unlikely

In xmit, it is very impossible that TX_ERROR occurs. So using
unlikely optimizes the xmit process.

CC: Srinivas Eeda <srinivas.eeda@...cle.com>
CC: Joe Jin <joe.jin@...cle.com>
CC: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@...cle.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
index ac8439c..e65276f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
@@ -2563,7 +2563,7 @@ static int nv_tx_done(struct net_device *dev, int limit)
 
 		if (np->desc_ver == DESC_VER_1) {
 			if (flags & NV_TX_LASTPACKET) {
-				if (flags & NV_TX_ERROR) {
+				if (unlikely(flags & NV_TX_ERROR)) {
 					if ((flags & NV_TX_RETRYERROR)
 					    && !(flags & NV_TX_RETRYCOUNT_MASK))
 						nv_legacybackoff_reseed(dev);
@@ -2580,7 +2580,7 @@ static int nv_tx_done(struct net_device *dev, int limit)
 			}
 		} else {
 			if (flags & NV_TX2_LASTPACKET) {
-				if (flags & NV_TX2_ERROR) {
+				if (unlikely(flags & NV_TX2_ERROR)) {
 					if ((flags & NV_TX2_RETRYERROR)
 					    && !(flags & NV_TX2_RETRYCOUNT_MASK))
 						nv_legacybackoff_reseed(dev);
@@ -2626,7 +2626,7 @@ static int nv_tx_done_optimized(struct net_device *dev, int limit)
 		nv_unmap_txskb(np, np->get_tx_ctx);
 
 		if (flags & NV_TX2_LASTPACKET) {
-			if (flags & NV_TX2_ERROR) {
+			if (unlikely(flags & NV_TX2_ERROR)) {
 				if ((flags & NV_TX2_RETRYERROR)
 				    && !(flags & NV_TX2_RETRYCOUNT_MASK)) {
 					if (np->driver_data & DEV_HAS_GEAR_MODE)
-- 
2.7.4