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List:       linux-netdev
Subject:    Re: [PATCH 0/3] A few minor clean-ups to eth_type_trans
From:       Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-04-30 23:11:43
Message-ID: 5542B6AF.9010602 () gmail ! com
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On 04/30/2015 03:35 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 02:53:42PM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>> This series addresses a few minor issues I found in eth_type_trans that
>> that allow us to gain back something like 3 or more cycles per packet.
>>
>> The first change is to drop the byte swap since it isn't necessary.  On x86
>> we could just check the first byte and compare that against the upper 8
>> bits of the Ethertype to determine if we are dealing with a size value or
>> not.
>>
>> The second makes it so that the value we read in to test for multicast can
>> be used for the address comparison.  This allows us to avoid a second read
>> of the destination address.
>>
>> The final change is to avoid some unneeded instructions in computing the
>> Ethernet header pointer.  When we start the call the Ethernet header is at
>> skb->data, so we just use that rather than computing mac_header, and then
>> adding that back to skb->head.
> Great stuff! Excellent optimizations.
>
> Only the comment 'ETH_P_802_3_MIN is aligned to 512' through me off.
> It's divisible by 256 that matters.

Yeah, it is 0x0600 hex so we can ignore the lower 8 bits, or in the case 
of little-endian systems the upper 8 bits.  I think when I had 
originally written the patch I was using a mask of 0xFE00, but then I 
realized that all the compiler cared about is knowing which byte it is 
supposed to compare against.

- Alex
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