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authorJon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>2015-03-13 21:08:09 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-03-14 19:38:32 +0100
commit2cdf3918e47e98c8f34f7a64455ea9fd433756e7 (patch)
treef70b865533e5a66cd59ed5e8224863bacafa05ed /net/tipc/bcast.c
parenttipc: extract bundled buffers by cloning instead of copying (diff)
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tipc: eliminate unnecessary call to broadcast ack function
The unicast packet header contains a broadcast acknowledge sequence number, that may need to be conveyed to the broadcast link for proper treatment. Currently, the function tipc_rcv(), which is on the most critical data path, calls the function tipc_bclink_acknowledge() to have this done. This call is made for each received packet, and results in the unconditional grabbing of the broadcast link spinlock. This is unnecessary, since we can see directly from tipc_rcv() if the acknowledged number differs from what has been previously acked from the node in question. In the vast majority of cases the numbers won't differ, and there is nothing to update. We now make the call to tipc_bclink_acknowledge() conditional to that the two ack values differ. Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/bcast.c')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/bcast.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/bcast.c b/net/tipc/bcast.c
index 3e41704832de..5ee5076a8b27 100644
--- a/net/tipc/bcast.c
+++ b/net/tipc/bcast.c
@@ -215,7 +215,11 @@ void tipc_bclink_acknowledge(struct tipc_node *n_ptr, u32 acked)
struct net *net = n_ptr->net;
struct tipc_net *tn = net_generic(net, tipc_net_id);
+ if (unlikely(!n_ptr->bclink.recv_permitted))
+ return;
+
tipc_bclink_lock(net);
+
/* Bail out if tx queue is empty (no clean up is required) */
skb = skb_peek(&tn->bcl->outqueue);
if (!skb)