Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: Increase NET_SKB_PAD to 64 bytes

David Miller
2010-05-07T05:02:16Z

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 07:24:09 +0200

> eth_type_trans() & get_rps_cpus() currently need two 64bytes cache lines
> in packet to compute rxhash.
>
> Increasing NET_SKB_PAD from 32 to 64 reduces the need to one cache line
> only, and makes RPS faster.
>
> NET_IP_ALIGN(2) + ethernet_header(14) + IP_header(20/40) + ports(8)
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.

Seeing this made me go check who was overriding NET_IP_ALIGN or
NET_SKB_PAD.

The powerpc bits are legitimate, but the microblaze case is complete
bogosity. It defines NET_IP_ALIGN to the default (2) and sets
NET_SKB_PAD to L1_CACHE_BYTES which on microblaze is 4 and
significantly smaller than the default.

So I'm going to delete them in net-next-2.6 like so:

--------------------
microblaze: Kill NET_SKB_PAD and NET_IP_ALIGN overrides.

NET_IP_ALIGN defaults to 2, no need to override.

NET_SKB_PAD is now 64, which is much larger than microblaze's
L1_CACHE_SIZE so no need to override that either.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
arch/microblaze/include/asm/system.h | 10 ----------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/system.h b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/system.h
index 48c4f03..b1e2f07 100644
--- a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/system.h
+++ b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/system.h
@@ -97,14 +97,4 @@ extern struct dentry *of_debugfs_root;

#define arch_align_stack(x) (x)

-/*
- * MicroBlaze doesn't handle unaligned accesses in hardware.
- *
- * Based on this we force the IP header alignment in network drivers.
- * We also modify NET_SKB_PAD to be a cacheline in size, thus maintaining
- * cacheline alignment of buffers.
- */
-#define NET_IP_ALIGN 2
-#define NET_SKB_PAD L1_CACHE_BYTES
-
#endif /* _ASM_MICROBLAZE_SYSTEM_H */
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