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From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] MIPS: partially inline dma ops
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:08:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5209169F.5070709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376306569-83278-2-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org>

On 08/12/2013 04:22 AM, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Several DMA ops are no-op on many platforms, and the indirection through
> the mips_dma_map_ops function table is causing the compiler to emit
> unnecessary code.
>
> Inlining visibly improves network performance in my tests (on a 24Kc
> based system), and also slightly reduces code size of a few drivers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
> ---
>   arch/mips/Kconfig                   |   4 +
>   arch/mips/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 360 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   arch/mips/mm/dma-default.c          | 161 ++--------------
>   3 files changed, 372 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)
>

That is not a very pleasing diffstat.


David

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-12 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-12 11:22 [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: remove unnecessary platform dma helper functions Felix Fietkau
2013-08-12 11:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] MIPS: partially inline dma ops Felix Fietkau
2013-08-12 17:08   ` David Daney [this message]
2013-08-12 17:22     ` Felix Fietkau
2013-08-12 17:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: remove unnecessary platform dma helper functions David Daney
2013-08-12 17:16   ` Felix Fietkau

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