tipc: eliminate unnecessary call to broadcast ack function
authorJon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:08:09 +0000 (16:08 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:38:32 +0000 (14:38 -0400)
commit2cdf3918e47e98c8f34f7a64455ea9fd433756e7
treef70b865533e5a66cd59ed5e8224863bacafa05ed
parentc1336ee472f83a90ede01fdae095ed5d0a2934c9
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>
net/tipc/bcast.c
net/tipc/link.c