netdev - Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v4 07/10] net: openvswitch: add likely in flow_lookup

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Date:   Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:27:34 -0700
From:   William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
To:     xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com
Cc:     Greg Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>, pravin shelar <pshelar@....org>,
        "<dev@...nvswitch.org>" <dev@...nvswitch.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v4 07/10] net: openvswitch: add likely
 in flow_lookup

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 5:55 AM <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com> wrote:
>
> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
>
> The most case *index < ma->max, and flow-mask is not NULL.
> We add un/likely for performance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
> Tested-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>
> ---
LGTM
Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>


>  net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
> index 3e3d345..5df5182 100644
> --- a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
> +++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
> @@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ static struct sw_flow *flow_lookup(struct flow_table *tbl,
>         struct sw_flow_mask *mask;
>         int i;
>
> -       if (*index < ma->max) {
> +       if (likely(*index < ma->max)) {
>                 mask = rcu_dereference_ovsl(ma->masks[*index]);
>                 if (mask) {
>                         flow = masked_flow_lookup(ti, key, mask, n_mask_hit);
> @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ static struct sw_flow *flow_lookup(struct flow_table *tbl,
>                         continue;
>
>                 mask = rcu_dereference_ovsl(ma->masks[i]);
> -               if (!mask)
> +               if (unlikely(!mask))
>                         break;
>
>                 flow = masked_flow_lookup(ti, key, mask, n_mask_hit);
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>
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