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Message-ID: <ZnKuafjQt-Y-VokM@nanopsycho.orion>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:09:45 +0200
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
	xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com, virtualization@...ts.linux.dev,
	ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, hawk@...nel.org,
	john.fastabend@...il.com, dave.taht@...il.com,
	kerneljasonxing@...il.com, hengqi@...ux.alibaba.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] virtio_net: add support for Byte Queue Limits

Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 10:23:25AM CEST, mst@...hat.com wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 10:05:41AM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> >Oh. Right of course. Worth a comment maybe? Just to make sure
>> >we remember not to call __free_old_xmit twice in a row
>> >without reinitializing stats.
>> >Or move the initialization into __free_old_xmit to make it
>> >self-contained ..
>> 
>> Well, the initialization happens in the caller by {0}, Wouldn't
>> memset in __free_old_xmit() add an extra overhead? IDK.
>
>
>Well if I did the below the binary is a bit smaller.
>
>If you have to respin you can include it.
>If not I can submit separately.

Please send it reparately. It's should be a separate patch.

Thanks!

>
>----
>
>
>virtio-net: cleanup __free_old_xmit
>
>Two call sites of __free_old_xmit zero-initialize stats,
>doing it inside __free_old_xmit seems to make compiler's
>job a bit easier:
>
>$ size /tmp/orig/virtio_net.o 
>   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  65857    3892     100   69849   110d9 /tmp/orig/virtio_net.o
>$ size /tmp/new/virtio_net.o 
>   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  65760    3892     100   69752   11078 /tmp/new/virtio_net.o
>
>Couldn't measure any performance impact, unsurprizingly.
>
>Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
>
>---
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>index 283b34d50296..c2ce8de340f7 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>@@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ static void __free_old_xmit(struct send_queue *sq, bool in_napi,
> 	unsigned int len;
> 	void *ptr;
> 
>+	stats->bytes = stats->packets = 0;

Memset perhaps?

>+
> 	while ((ptr = virtqueue_get_buf(sq->vq, &len)) != NULL) {
> 		++stats->packets;
> 
>@@ -828,7 +830,7 @@ static void virtnet_rq_unmap_free_buf(struct virtqueue *vq, void *buf)
> 
> static void free_old_xmit(struct send_queue *sq, bool in_napi)
> {
>-	struct virtnet_sq_free_stats stats = {0};
>+	struct virtnet_sq_free_stats stats;
> 
> 	__free_old_xmit(sq, in_napi, &stats);
> 
>@@ -979,7 +981,7 @@ static int virtnet_xdp_xmit(struct net_device *dev,
> 			    int n, struct xdp_frame **frames, u32 flags)
> {
> 	struct virtnet_info *vi = netdev_priv(dev);
>-	struct virtnet_sq_free_stats stats = {0};
>+	struct virtnet_sq_free_stats stats;
> 	struct receive_queue *rq = vi->rq;
> 	struct bpf_prog *xdp_prog;
> 	struct send_queue *sq;
>

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