This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: mvneta: increase the 64-bit rx/tx stats out of the hot path to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-mvneta-increase-the-64-bit-rx-tx-stats-out-of-the-hot-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From dc4277dd41a80fd5f29a90412ea04bc3ba54fbf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: willy tarreau <w@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:20:07 +0100 Subject: net: mvneta: increase the 64-bit rx/tx stats out of the hot path From: willy tarreau <w@xxxxxx> commit dc4277dd41a80fd5f29a90412ea04bc3ba54fbf1 upstream. Better count packets and bytes in the stack and on 32 bit then accumulate them at the end for once. This saves two memory writes and two memory barriers per packet. The incoming packet rate was increased by 4.7% on the Openblocks AX3 thanks to this. Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Arnaud Ebalard <arno@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c @@ -1354,6 +1354,8 @@ static int mvneta_rx(struct mvneta_port { struct net_device *dev = pp->dev; int rx_done, rx_filled; + u32 rcvd_pkts = 0; + u32 rcvd_bytes = 0; /* Get number of received packets */ rx_done = mvneta_rxq_busy_desc_num_get(pp, rxq); @@ -1391,10 +1393,8 @@ static int mvneta_rx(struct mvneta_port rx_bytes = rx_desc->data_size - (ETH_FCS_LEN + MVNETA_MH_SIZE); - u64_stats_update_begin(&pp->rx_stats.syncp); - pp->rx_stats.packets++; - pp->rx_stats.bytes += rx_bytes; - u64_stats_update_end(&pp->rx_stats.syncp); + rcvd_pkts++; + rcvd_bytes += rx_bytes; /* Linux processing */ skb_reserve(skb, MVNETA_MH_SIZE); @@ -1415,6 +1415,13 @@ static int mvneta_rx(struct mvneta_port } } + if (rcvd_pkts) { + u64_stats_update_begin(&pp->rx_stats.syncp); + pp->rx_stats.packets += rcvd_pkts; + pp->rx_stats.bytes += rcvd_bytes; + u64_stats_update_end(&pp->rx_stats.syncp); + } + /* Update rxq management counters */ mvneta_rxq_desc_num_update(pp, rxq, rx_done, rx_filled); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from w@xxxxxx are queue-3.10/net-mvneta-increase-the-64-bit-rx-tx-stats-out-of-the-hot-path.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html