RE: [PATCHv2 net-next 04/12] sctp: implement make_datafrag for sctp_stream_interleave

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From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
> Sent: 08 December 2017 14:57
> 
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 02:06:04PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > From: Xin Long
> > > Sent: 08 December 2017 13:04
> > ...
> > > @@ -264,8 +264,8 @@ struct sctp_datamsg *sctp_datamsg_from_user(struct sctp_association *asoc,
> > >  				frag |= SCTP_DATA_SACK_IMM;
> > >  		}
> > >
> > > -		chunk = sctp_make_datafrag_empty(asoc, sinfo, len, frag,
> > > -						 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +		chunk = asoc->stream.si->make_datafrag(asoc, sinfo, len, frag,
> > > +						       GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> > I know that none of the sctp code is very optimised, but that indirect
> > call is going to be horrid.
> 
> Yeah.. but there is no way to avoid the double derreference
> considering we only have the asoc pointer in there and we have to
> reach the contents of the data chunk operations struct, and the .si
> part is the same as 'stream' part as it's a constant offset.
...

It isn't only the double indirect, the indirect call itself isn't 'fun'.

I think there are other hot paths where you've replaced a sizeof()
with a ?: clause.
Caching the result might be much better.

	David

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