Re: [patch net-next-2.6] bonding: move processing of recv handlers into handle_frame()

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

Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 15:48 +0200, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
> Since now when bonding uses rx_handler, all traffic going into bond
> device goes thru bond_handle_frame. So there's no need to go back into
> bonding code later via ptype handlers. This patch converts
> original ptype handlers into "bonding receive probes". These functions
> are called from bond_handle_frame and they are registered per-mode.
> 
> Note that vlan packets are also handled because they are always untagged
> thanks to vlan_untag()
> 
> Note that this also allows arpmon for eth-bond-bridge-vlan topology.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>



>  			}
> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h b/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
> index 6126c6a..85fb822 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
> @@ -226,6 +226,8 @@ struct bonding {
>  	struct   slave *primary_slave;
>  	bool     force_primary;
>  	s32      slave_cnt; /* never change this value outside the attach/detach wrappers */
> +	void     (*recv_probe)(struct sk_buff *, struct bonding *,
> +			       struct slave *);
>  	rwlock_t lock;
>  	rwlock_t curr_slave_lock;
>  	s8       kill_timers;


Any performance numbers ?

I am asking because recv_probe sits in a often dirtied cache line...

It would be nice to separate rx & tx path needs