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net: Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison
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Optimize skb_tx_hash() by eliminating a comparison that executes for
every packet. skb_tx_hashrnd initialization is moved to a later part of
the startup sequence, namely after the "random" driver is initialized.

Rebooted the system three times and verified that the code generates
different random numbers each time.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Krishna Kumar authored and David S. Miller committed Feb 19, 2009
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14 changes: 8 additions & 6 deletions net/core/dev.c
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Expand Up @@ -1745,17 +1745,11 @@ int dev_hard_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
}

static u32 skb_tx_hashrnd;
static int skb_tx_hashrnd_initialized = 0;

static u16 skb_tx_hash(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
u32 hash;

if (unlikely(!skb_tx_hashrnd_initialized)) {
get_random_bytes(&skb_tx_hashrnd, 4);
skb_tx_hashrnd_initialized = 1;
}

if (skb_rx_queue_recorded(skb)) {
hash = skb_get_rx_queue(skb);
} else if (skb->sk && skb->sk->sk_hash) {
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subsys_initcall(net_dev_init);

static int __init initialize_hashrnd(void)
{
get_random_bytes(&skb_tx_hashrnd, sizeof(skb_tx_hashrnd));
return 0;
}

late_initcall_sync(initialize_hashrnd);

EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_get_by_index);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_get_by_name);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_remove_pack);
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