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mv643xx_eth: avoid dropping tx lock during transmit reclaim
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By moving DMA unmapping during transmit reclaim back under the netif
tx lock, we avoid the situation where we read the DMA address and buffer
length from the descriptor under the lock and then not do anything with
that data after dropping the lock on platforms where the DMA unmapping
routines are all NOPs (which is the case on all ARM platforms that
mv643xx_eth is used on at least).

This saves two uncached reads, which makes a small but measurable
performance difference in routing benchmarks.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
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Lennert Buytenhek authored and Lennert Buytenhek committed Sep 14, 2008
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22 changes: 7 additions & 15 deletions drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c
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Expand Up @@ -866,8 +866,6 @@ static int txq_reclaim(struct tx_queue *txq, int budget, int force)
struct tx_desc *desc;
u32 cmd_sts;
struct sk_buff *skb;
dma_addr_t addr;
int count;

tx_index = txq->tx_used_desc;
desc = &txq->tx_desc_area[tx_index];
Expand All @@ -886,8 +884,6 @@ static int txq_reclaim(struct tx_queue *txq, int budget, int force)
reclaimed++;
txq->tx_desc_count--;

addr = desc->buf_ptr;
count = desc->byte_cnt;
skb = txq->tx_skb[tx_index];
txq->tx_skb[tx_index] = NULL;

Expand All @@ -896,20 +892,16 @@ static int txq_reclaim(struct tx_queue *txq, int budget, int force)
mp->dev->stats.tx_errors++;
}

/*
* Drop tx queue lock while we free the skb.
*/
__netif_tx_unlock(nq);

if (cmd_sts & TX_FIRST_DESC)
dma_unmap_single(NULL, addr, count, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
else
dma_unmap_page(NULL, addr, count, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
if (cmd_sts & TX_FIRST_DESC) {
dma_unmap_single(NULL, desc->buf_ptr,
desc->byte_cnt, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
} else {
dma_unmap_page(NULL, desc->buf_ptr,
desc->byte_cnt, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
}

if (skb)
dev_kfree_skb(skb);

__netif_tx_lock(nq, smp_processor_id());
}

__netif_tx_unlock(nq);
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