From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:30:53 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PKT_SCHED]: Reduce branch mispredictions in pfifo_fast_dequeue
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=452f299da3253f65020143f743c2e207b752547b;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

[PKT_SCHED]: Reduce branch mispredictions in pfifo_fast_dequeue

The current call to __qdisc_dequeue_head leads to a branch
misprediction for every loop iteration, the fact that the
most common priority is 2 makes this even worse.  This issue
has been brought up by Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
but unlike his solution which was to manually unroll the loop,
this approach preserves the possibility to increase the number
of bands at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
index 73e218e646ac..8edefd5d095d 100644
--- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
@@ -331,11 +331,10 @@ static struct sk_buff *pfifo_fast_dequeue(struct Qdisc* qdisc)
 	int prio;
 	struct sk_buff_head *list = qdisc_priv(qdisc);
 
-	for (prio = 0; prio < PFIFO_FAST_BANDS; prio++, list++) {
-		struct sk_buff *skb = __qdisc_dequeue_head(qdisc, list);
-		if (skb) {
+	for (prio = 0; prio < PFIFO_FAST_BANDS; prio++) {
+		if (!skb_queue_empty(list + prio)) {
 			qdisc->q.qlen--;
-			return skb;
+			return __qdisc_dequeue_head(qdisc, list + prio);
 		}
 	}