From 830a8a976ff2236ebc383e9a06f7872ed9243bfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shirley Ma Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:14:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] virtio_net: remove send queue Now we have a virtio detach API (in commit f9bfbebf34eab707b065116cdc9699d25ba4252a), we don't need to track xmit skbs in the virio_net driver, which improves transmission performance. Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma Acked-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 26 ++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 4c347a3..ce35b42 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ struct virtnet_info /* Host will merge rx buffers for big packets (shake it! shake it!) */ bool mergeable_rx_bufs; - /* Send queue. */ - struct sk_buff_head send; - /* Work struct for refilling if we run low on memory. */ struct delayed_work refill; @@ -505,7 +502,6 @@ static unsigned int free_old_xmit_skbs(struct virtnet_info *vi) while ((skb = vi->svq->vq_ops->get_buf(vi->svq, &len)) != NULL) { pr_debug("Sent skb %p\n", skb); - __skb_unlink(skb, &vi->send); vi->dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len; vi->dev->stats.tx_packets++; tot_sgs += skb_vnet_hdr(skb)->num_sg; @@ -588,15 +584,6 @@ again: } vi->svq->vq_ops->kick(vi->svq); - /* - * Put new one in send queue. You'd expect we'd need this before - * xmit_skb calls add_buf(), since the callback can be triggered - * immediately after that. But since the callback just triggers - * another call back here, normal network xmit locking prevents the - * race. - */ - __skb_queue_head(&vi->send, skb); - /* Don't wait up for transmitted skbs to be freed. */ skb_orphan(skb); nf_reset(skb); @@ -980,9 +967,6 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER; } - /* Initialize our empty send queue. */ - skb_queue_head_init(&vi->send); - err = register_netdev(dev); if (err) { pr_debug("virtio_net: registering device failed\n"); @@ -1019,6 +1003,12 @@ static void free_unused_bufs(struct virtnet_info *vi) { void *buf; while (1) { + buf = vi->svq->vq_ops->detach_unused_buf(vi->svq); + if (!buf) + break; + dev_kfree_skb(buf); + } + while (1) { buf = vi->rvq->vq_ops->detach_unused_buf(vi->rvq); if (!buf) break; @@ -1038,11 +1028,11 @@ static void __devexit virtnet_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev) /* Stop all the virtqueues. */ vdev->config->reset(vdev); - /* Free our skbs in send queue, if any. */ - __skb_queue_purge(&vi->send); unregister_netdev(vi->dev); cancel_delayed_work_sync(&vi->refill); + + /* Free unused buffers in both send and recv, if any. */ free_unused_bufs(vi); vdev->config->del_vqs(vi->vdev); -- 1.8.2.3