The current source pushes skb into dev->done queue by calling skb_queue_tail() and then pop it by calling skb_dequeue() to branch to rx_cleanup state for freeing urb/skb in usbnet_bh(). It takes extra CPU load, 2.21% (skb_queue_tail) as follows. - 11.58% 0.26% swapper [k] usbnet_bh - 11.32% usbnet_bh - 6.43% skb_dequeue 6.34% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore - 2.21% skb_queue_tail 2.19% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore - 1.68% consume_skb - 0.97% kfree_skbmem 0.80% kmem_cache_free 0.53% skb_release_data To reduce the extra CPU load use return values jumping to rx_cleanup state directly to free them instead of calling skb_queue_tail() and skb_dequeue() for push/pop respectively. - 7.87% 0.25% swapper [k] usbnet_bh - 7.62% usbnet_bh - 4.81% skb_dequeue 4.74% _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore - 1.75% consume_skb - 0.98% kfree_skbmem 0.78% kmem_cache_free 0.58% skb_release_data 0.53% smsc95xx_rx_fixup Signed-off-by: Leesoo Ahn <lsahn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: - Replace goto label with return statement to reduce goto entropy - Add CPU load information by perf in commit message v1 at: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20221217161851.829497-1-lsahn@xxxxxxxxxx/ --- drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c index 64a9a80b2309..6e82fef90dd9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c @@ -555,32 +555,30 @@ static int rx_submit (struct usbnet *dev, struct urb *urb, gfp_t flags) /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ -static inline void rx_process (struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb) +static inline int rx_process(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb) { if (dev->driver_info->rx_fixup && !dev->driver_info->rx_fixup (dev, skb)) { /* With RX_ASSEMBLE, rx_fixup() must update counters */ if (!(dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_RX_ASSEMBLE)) dev->net->stats.rx_errors++; - goto done; + return 1; } // else network stack removes extra byte if we forced a short packet /* all data was already cloned from skb inside the driver */ if (dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_MULTI_PACKET) - goto done; + return 1; if (skb->len < ETH_HLEN) { dev->net->stats.rx_errors++; dev->net->stats.rx_length_errors++; netif_dbg(dev, rx_err, dev->net, "rx length %d\n", skb->len); - } else { - usbnet_skb_return(dev, skb); - return; + return 1; } -done: - skb_queue_tail(&dev->done, skb); + usbnet_skb_return(dev, skb); + return 0; } /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ @@ -1528,13 +1526,14 @@ static void usbnet_bh (struct timer_list *t) entry = (struct skb_data *) skb->cb; switch (entry->state) { case rx_done: - entry->state = rx_cleanup; - rx_process (dev, skb); + if (rx_process(dev, skb)) + goto cleanup; continue; case tx_done: kfree(entry->urb->sg); fallthrough; case rx_cleanup: +cleanup: usb_free_urb (entry->urb); dev_kfree_skb (skb); continue; -- 2.34.1