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			68 lines
		
	
	
		
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[RFC] rt2x00: For drivers that only need L2 padding don't realign frames
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Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@...>
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Ivo, Gertjan, do you remeber by any chance why this alignment stuff was added
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in the first place? Was it because of DMA restrictions?
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While doing some profiling on the rt3052 SoC I noticed that 30-40% time was
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spent in memmove calls. And the culprit is the memmove aligning the payload
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to a 4byte boundary since that has to move a whole bunch of data.
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Interesstingly the legacy drivers insert an l2pad between the header and the
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payload but doesn't realign the payload itself to a 4-byte boundary. Hence,
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I came up with this patch and indeed CPU usage improves impressively.
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Only tested on rt2800pci!
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Thanks,
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Helmut
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 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c |   30 +++-------------------------
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 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
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--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
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+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c
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@@ -163,36 +163,14 @@ void rt2x00queue_align_frame(struct sk_b
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 void rt2x00queue_insert_l2pad(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int header_length)
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 {
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 	unsigned int payload_length = skb->len - header_length;
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-	unsigned int header_align = ALIGN_SIZE(skb, 0);
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-	unsigned int payload_align = ALIGN_SIZE(skb, header_length);
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 	unsigned int l2pad = payload_length ? L2PAD_SIZE(header_length) : 0;
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-	/*
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-	 * Adjust the header alignment if the payload needs to be moved more
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-	 * than the header.
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-	 */
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-	if (payload_align > header_align)
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-		header_align += 4;
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-
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-	/* There is nothing to do if no alignment is needed */
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-	if (!header_align)
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+	if (!l2pad)
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 		return;
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-	/* Reserve the amount of space needed in front of the frame */
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-	skb_push(skb, header_align);
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-
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-	/*
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-	 * Move the header.
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-	 */
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-	memmove(skb->data, skb->data + header_align, header_length);
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-
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-	/* Move the payload, if present and if required */
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-	if (payload_length && payload_align)
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-		memmove(skb->data + header_length + l2pad,
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-			skb->data + header_length + l2pad + payload_align,
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-			payload_length);
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-
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-	/* Trim the skb to the correct size */
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+	/* insert l2pad -> Move header */
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+	skb_push(skb, l2pad);
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+	memmove(skb->data, skb->data + l2pad, header_length);
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 	skb_trim(skb, header_length + l2pad + payload_length);
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 }
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