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tipc: eliminate unnecessary call to broadcast ack function

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The unicast packet header contains a broadcast acknowledge sequence
number, that may need to be conveyed to the broadcast link for proper
treatment. Currently, the function tipc_rcv(), which is on the most
critical data path, calls the function tipc_bclink_acknowledge() to
have this done. This call is made for each received packet, and results
in the unconditional grabbing of the broadcast link spinlock.

This is unnecessary, since we can see directly from tipc_rcv() if
the acknowledged number differs from what has been previously acked
from the node in question. In the vast majority of cases the numbers
won't differ, and there is nothing to update.

We now make the call to tipc_bclink_acknowledge() conditional
to that the two ack values differ.

Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jon Paul Maloy 2015-03-13 16:08:09 -04:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent c1336ee472
commit 2cdf3918e4
2 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
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net/tipc/bcast.c
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@ -215,7 +215,11 @@ void tipc_bclink_acknowledge(struct tipc_node *n_ptr, u32 acked)
struct net *net = n_ptr->net;
struct tipc_net *tn = net_generic(net, tipc_net_id);
if (unlikely(!n_ptr->bclink.recv_permitted))
return;
tipc_bclink_lock(net);
/* Bail out if tx queue is empty (no clean up is required) */
skb = skb_peek(&tn->bcl->outqueue);
if (!skb)

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net/tipc/link.c
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@ -1117,7 +1117,7 @@ void tipc_rcv(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr)
ackd = msg_ack(msg);
/* Release acked messages */
if (likely(n_ptr->bclink.recv_permitted))
if (unlikely(n_ptr->bclink.acked != msg_bcast_ack(msg)))
tipc_bclink_acknowledge(n_ptr, msg_bcast_ack(msg));
released = 0;