Re: [PATCH v2] netdev:bfin_mac: reclaim and free tx skb as soon as possible after transfer

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le jeudi 03 juin 2010 à 11:48 +0800, sonic zhang a écrit :

>  	bfin_tx_hwtstamp(dev, skb);
>  
>  	current_tx_ptr = current_tx_ptr->next;
>  	dev->stats.tx_packets++;
>  	dev->stats.tx_bytes += (skb->len);
> +
> +	tx_reclaim_skb(lp);
> +
>  	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
>  }
>  

Not related to your patch, but reviewing it I see this driver still do
the "dev->stats.tx_packets++; dev->stats.tx_bytes += (skb->len);"

This is not necessary and expensive, since we update txq stats in core
network stack.

	rc = ops->ndo_start_xmit(skb, dev);
	if (rc == NETDEV_TX_OK)
		txq_trans_update(txq);  << here >>

Doing these changes in a network driver dirties yet another cache line
in a hot path.

I suspect many drivers could be changed to avoid this double accounting.

A driver providing a ndo_get_stats() method can use the
dev_txq_stats_fold() helper.

driver not provinding a ndo_get_stats() method has nothing special to
do, dev_get_stats() automatically calls dev_txq_stats_fold() to update
dev->stats.{tx_packets|tx_bytes|tx_dropped} using txq stats.