[PATCH 2/5] ath10k: avoid needless memset on TX path

Michal Kazior michal.kazior at tieto.com
Wed Sep 18 08:43:19 EDT 2013


This reduces number of memory accesses and
hopefully contributes to better performance in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htc.c    |    2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c |    4 +++-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c    |    4 +++-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c   |    1 -
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htc.c
index d0d7212..3118d75 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htc.c
@@ -103,10 +103,10 @@ static void ath10k_htc_prepare_tx_skb(struct ath10k_htc_ep *ep,
 	struct ath10k_htc_hdr *hdr;
 
 	hdr = (struct ath10k_htc_hdr *)skb->data;
-	memset(hdr, 0, sizeof(*hdr));
 
 	hdr->eid = ep->eid;
 	hdr->len = __cpu_to_le16(skb->len - sizeof(*hdr));
+	hdr->flags = 0;
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&ep->htc->tx_lock);
 	hdr->seq_no = ep->seq_no++;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c
index 4548128..c4bbf74 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/htt_tx.c
@@ -384,9 +384,11 @@ int ath10k_htt_mgmt_tx(struct ath10k_htt *htt, struct sk_buff *msdu)
 	/* refcount is decremented by HTC and HTT completions until it reaches
 	 * zero and is freed */
 	skb_cb = ATH10K_SKB_CB(txdesc);
+	skb_cb->htt.is_conf = false;
 	skb_cb->htt.msdu_id = msdu_id;
 	skb_cb->htt.refcount = 2;
 	skb_cb->htt.msdu = msdu;
+	skb_cb->htt.txfrag = NULL;
 
 	res = ath10k_htc_send(&htt->ar->htc, htt->eid, txdesc);
 	if (res)
@@ -505,7 +507,6 @@ int ath10k_htt_tx(struct ath10k_htt *htt, struct sk_buff *msdu)
 
 	skb_put(txdesc, desc_len);
 	cmd = (struct htt_cmd *)txdesc->data;
-	memset(cmd, 0, desc_len);
 
 	tid = ATH10K_SKB_CB(msdu)->htt.tid;
 
@@ -555,6 +556,7 @@ int ath10k_htt_tx(struct ath10k_htt *htt, struct sk_buff *msdu)
 	/* refcount is decremented by HTC and HTT completions until it reaches
 	 * zero and is freed */
 	skb_cb = ATH10K_SKB_CB(txdesc);
+	skb_cb->htt.is_conf = false;
 	skb_cb->htt.msdu_id = msdu_id;
 	skb_cb->htt.refcount = 2;
 	skb_cb->htt.txfrag = txfrag;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
index 5a56833..0d367e4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
@@ -1757,7 +1757,9 @@ static void ath10k_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 		ath10k_tx_h_seq_no(skb);
 	}
 
-	memset(ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb), 0, sizeof(*ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)));
+	ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)->is_mapped = false;
+	ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)->is_aborted = false;
+	ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)->htt.is_offchan = false;
 	ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)->htt.vdev_id = vdev_id;
 	ATH10K_SKB_CB(skb)->htt.tid = tid;
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c
index 37b8196..f6fed31 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/txrx.c
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ void ath10k_txrx_tx_unref(struct ath10k_htt *htt, struct sk_buff *txdesc)
 	ath10k_report_offchan_tx(htt->ar, msdu);
 
 	info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(msdu);
-	memset(&info->status, 0, sizeof(info->status));
 
 	if (ATH10K_SKB_CB(txdesc)->htt.discard) {
 		ieee80211_free_txskb(htt->ar->hw, msdu);
-- 
1.7.9.5




More information about the ath10k mailing list