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hv_netvsc: remove locking in netvsc_send()
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Packet scheduler guarantees there won't be multiple senders for the same
queue and as we use q_idx for multi_send_data the spinlock is redundant.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Vitaly Kuznetsov authored and David S. Miller committed Dec 3, 2015
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion drivers/net/hyperv/hyperv_net.h
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Expand Up @@ -632,7 +632,6 @@ struct nvsp_message {
#define RNDIS_PKT_ALIGN_DEFAULT 8

struct multi_send_data {
spinlock_t lock; /* protect struct multi_send_data */
struct hv_netvsc_packet *pkt; /* netvsc pkt pending */
u32 count; /* counter of batched packets */
};
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8 changes: 0 additions & 8 deletions drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc.c
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Expand Up @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ static struct netvsc_device *alloc_net_device(struct hv_device *device)
{
struct netvsc_device *net_device;
struct net_device *ndev = hv_get_drvdata(device);
int i;

net_device = kzalloc(sizeof(struct netvsc_device), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!net_device)
Expand All @@ -58,9 +57,6 @@ static struct netvsc_device *alloc_net_device(struct hv_device *device)
net_device->max_pkt = RNDIS_MAX_PKT_DEFAULT;
net_device->pkt_align = RNDIS_PKT_ALIGN_DEFAULT;

for (i = 0; i < num_online_cpus(); i++)
spin_lock_init(&net_device->msd[i].lock);

hv_set_drvdata(device, net_device);
return net_device;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -850,7 +846,6 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device,
u16 q_idx = packet->q_idx;
u32 pktlen = packet->total_data_buflen, msd_len = 0;
unsigned int section_index = NETVSC_INVALID_INDEX;
unsigned long flag;
struct multi_send_data *msdp;
struct hv_netvsc_packet *msd_send = NULL, *cur_send = NULL;
bool try_batch;
Expand All @@ -867,7 +862,6 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device,
msdp = &net_device->msd[q_idx];

/* batch packets in send buffer if possible */
spin_lock_irqsave(&msdp->lock, flag);
if (msdp->pkt)
msd_len = msdp->pkt->total_data_buflen;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -927,8 +921,6 @@ int netvsc_send(struct hv_device *device,
cur_send = packet;
}

spin_unlock_irqrestore(&msdp->lock, flag);

if (msd_send) {
m_ret = netvsc_send_pkt(msd_send, net_device);

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