Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756885Ab2FGMuI (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:50:08 -0400 Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.214.232.25]:45957 "EHLO relay.sw.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755800Ab2FGMuG (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2012 08:50:06 -0400 From: Roman Kagan To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Roman Kagan , Jeff Kirsher , Jesse Brandeburg , Bruce Allan , Carolyn Wyborny , Don Skidmore , Greg Rose , PJ Waskiewicz , Alex Duyck , John Ronciak , Dean Nelson , "David S. Miller" , e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:49:56 +0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3806 Lines: 103 [Upstream commit 31c15a2f24ebdab14333d9bf5df49757842ae2ec with paths adjusted to compensate for the drivers/net/ethernet/intel reorg in dee1ad47f2ee75f5146d83ca757c1b7861c34c3b] Author: Dean Nelson Date: Thu Aug 25 14:39:24 2011 +0000 e1000: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses Virtual Machines with emulated e1000 network adapter running on Parallels' server were seeing kernel panics due to the e1000 driver dereferencing an unexpected NULL pointer retrieved from buffer_info->skb. The problem has been addressed for the e1000e driver, but not for the e1000. Since the two drivers share similar code in the affected area, a port of the following e1000e driver commit solves the issue for the e1000 driver: commit 9ed318d546a29d7a591dbe648fd1a2efe3be1180 Author: Tom Herbert Date: Wed May 5 14:02:27 2010 +0000 e1000e: save skb counts in TX to avoid cache misses In e1000_tx_map, precompute number of segements and bytecounts which are derived from fields in skb; these are stored in buffer_info. When cleaning tx in e1000_clean_tx_irq use the values in the associated buffer_info for statistics counting, this eliminates cache misses on skb fields. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan --- drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h | 2 ++ drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h index 8676899..2c71884 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h +++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h @@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ struct e1000_buffer { unsigned long time_stamp; u16 length; u16 next_to_watch; + unsigned int segs; + unsigned int bytecount; u16 mapped_as_page; }; diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c index 76e8af0..99525f9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c @@ -2798,7 +2798,7 @@ static int e1000_tx_map(struct e1000_adapter *adapter, struct e1000_buffer *buffer_info; unsigned int len = skb_headlen(skb); unsigned int offset = 0, size, count = 0, i; - unsigned int f; + unsigned int f, bytecount, segs; i = tx_ring->next_to_use; @@ -2899,7 +2899,13 @@ static int e1000_tx_map(struct e1000_adapter *adapter, } } + segs = skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs ?: 1; + /* multiply data chunks by size of headers */ + bytecount = ((segs - 1) * skb_headlen(skb)) + skb->len; + tx_ring->buffer_info[i].skb = skb; + tx_ring->buffer_info[i].segs = segs; + tx_ring->buffer_info[i].bytecount = bytecount; tx_ring->buffer_info[first].next_to_watch = i; return count; @@ -3573,14 +3579,8 @@ static bool e1000_clean_tx_irq(struct e1000_adapter *adapter, cleaned = (i == eop); if (cleaned) { - struct sk_buff *skb = buffer_info->skb; - unsigned int segs, bytecount; - segs = skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs ?: 1; - /* multiply data chunks by size of headers */ - bytecount = ((segs - 1) * skb_headlen(skb)) + - skb->len; - total_tx_packets += segs; - total_tx_bytes += bytecount; + total_tx_packets += buffer_info->segs; + total_tx_bytes += buffer_info->bytecount; } e1000_unmap_and_free_tx_resource(adapter, buffer_info); tx_desc->upper.data = 0; -- 1.7.10.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/