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Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: dsa: hide dsa_uses_tagged_protocol code

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Hi Andrew, David,

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

>>> +bool dsa_uses_tagged_protocol(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst)
>>> +{
>>> +	return !!dst->rcv;
>>> +}
>>> +
>> 
>> You need to be careful here. This is in the hot path. Every frame
>> received uses this code. And think about a distro kernel, which might
>> have DSA enabled by default, yet is unlikely to have any switches. You
>> are adding a function call which can be called millions of times per
>> second....
>
> Yeah, we really can't make this change.
>
> This isn't glibc where we're trying to hide the implementation of "FILE *"
> behind accessor functions that caller can't see.  We inline things when
> performance dictates, and it does here.

Thanks for the explanation, this wasn't obvious to me at all. So inline
is mandatory here. Would a dereference like "!!dst->tag_ops->rcv" have
an significant impact on performance?

Thanks,

        Vivien

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[PATCH net-next 0/7] net: dsa: tagger simplification Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2017-05-30 16:30 +0200
  [PATCH net-next 3/7] net: dsa: remove unused arguments of tagger rcv Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2017-05-30 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next 3/7] net: dsa: remove unused arguments of tagger  rcv Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-05-30 17:20 +0200
  [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: dsa: hide dsa_uses_tagged_protocol code Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2017-05-30 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: dsa: hide dsa_uses_tagged_protocol code Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-05-30 17:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: dsa: hide dsa_uses_tagged_protocol  code David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-05-30 17:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: dsa: hide dsa_uses_tagged_protocol code Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2017-05-30 18:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: dsa: hide dsa_uses_tagged_protocol code Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2017-05-30 18:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: dsa: hide dsa_uses_tagged_protocol code Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-05-30 18:20 +0200
  [PATCH net-next 7/7] net: dsa: factor skb freeing on xmit Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2017-05-30 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] net: dsa: factor skb freeing on xmit Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-05-30 17:40 +0200
  [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: dsa: remove useless goto label in tagger rcv Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2017-05-30 16:30 +0200
  [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: dsa: remove useless rcv copy in DSA tree Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com> - 2017-05-30 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: dsa: remove useless rcv copy in DSA  tree Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-05-30 17:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: dsa: remove useless rcv copy in DSA  tree David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-05-30 17:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] net: dsa: tagger simplification Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> - 2017-05-30 17:20 +0200

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