On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:21:30AM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote: > The dsa_slave_priv structure holds a copy of the dsa_device_ops xmit > function. It is always assigned to the switch tree xmit function. > > Remove this useless copy. > > Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.dide...@savoirfairelinux.com> > --- > net/dsa/dsa_priv.h | 3 --- > net/dsa/slave.c | 4 +--- > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/net/dsa/dsa_priv.h b/net/dsa/dsa_priv.h > index 0fdd2a8a4ad8..282a55639285 100644 > --- a/net/dsa/dsa_priv.h > +++ b/net/dsa/dsa_priv.h > @@ -71,9 +71,6 @@ struct dsa_device_ops { > }; > > struct dsa_slave_priv { > - struct sk_buff * (*xmit)(struct sk_buff *skb, > - struct net_device *dev); > - > /* DSA port data, such as switch, port index, etc. */ > struct dsa_port *dp; > > diff --git a/net/dsa/slave.c b/net/dsa/slave.c > index 887e26695519..ebad2af4d3a8 100644 > --- a/net/dsa/slave.c > +++ b/net/dsa/slave.c > @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t dsa_slave_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, > struct net_device *dev) > dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len; > > /* Transmit function may have to reallocate the original SKB */ > - nskb = p->xmit(skb, dev); > + nskb = p->dp->ds->dst->tag_ops->xmit(skb, dev);
This is also the hot path for DSA transmit. Do we really want to do 4 extra pointer dereferences a million times per second, compared to one copy during setup? Andrew