netdev - [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: use indirect calls helpers for ptype hook

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Message-Id: <e49a56bf6b08ec729f302aeeaba88ef7cd2a3a45.1556889691.git.pabeni@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri,  3 May 2019 17:01:36 +0200
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: use indirect calls helpers for ptype hook

This avoids an indirect call per RX IPv6/IPv4 packet.
Note that we don't want to use the indirect calls helper for taps.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 22f2640f559a..108ac8137b9b 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4987,7 +4987,8 @@ static int __netif_receive_skb_one_core(struct sk_buff *skb, bool pfmemalloc)
 
 	ret = __netif_receive_skb_core(skb, pfmemalloc, &pt_prev);
 	if (pt_prev)
-		ret = pt_prev->func(skb, skb->dev, pt_prev, orig_dev);
+		ret = INDIRECT_CALL_INET(pt_prev->func, ipv6_rcv, ip_rcv, skb,
+					 skb->dev, pt_prev, orig_dev);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -5033,7 +5034,8 @@ static inline void __netif_receive_skb_list_ptype(struct list_head *head,
 	else
 		list_for_each_entry_safe(skb, next, head, list) {
 			skb_list_del_init(skb);
-			pt_prev->func(skb, skb->dev, pt_prev, orig_dev);
+			INDIRECT_CALL_INET(pt_prev->func, ipv6_rcv, ip_rcv, skb,
+					   skb->dev, pt_prev, orig_dev);
 		}
 }
 
-- 
2.20.1