[1/3] net/i40e: reduce redundant store operation

Message ID 20211220055039.4035627-2-feifei.wang2@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Headers
Series reduce redundant store operation for Tx free |

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Commit Message

Feifei Wang Dec. 20, 2021, 5:50 a.m. UTC
  For free buffer operation in i40e driver, it is unnecessary to store
'NULL' into txep.mbuf. This is because when putting mbuf into Tx queue,
tx_tail is the sentinel. And when doing tx_free, tx_next_dd is the
sentinel. In all processes, mbuf==NULL is not a condition in check.
Thus reset of mbuf is unnecessary and can be omitted.

Signed-off-by: Feifei Wang <feifei.wang2@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
---
 drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c            | 3 ---
 drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h | 1 -
 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c
index e4cb33dc3c..4de2be53e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx.c
@@ -1344,7 +1344,6 @@  i40e_tx_free_bufs(struct i40e_tx_queue *txq)
 			for (j = 0; j != k; j += RTE_I40E_TX_MAX_FREE_BUF_SZ) {
 				for (i = 0; i < RTE_I40E_TX_MAX_FREE_BUF_SZ; ++i, ++txep) {
 					free[i] = txep->mbuf;
-					txep->mbuf = NULL;
 				}
 				rte_mempool_put_bulk(free[0]->pool, (void **)free,
 						RTE_I40E_TX_MAX_FREE_BUF_SZ);
@@ -1354,14 +1353,12 @@  i40e_tx_free_bufs(struct i40e_tx_queue *txq)
 		if (m) {
 			for (i = 0; i < m; ++i, ++txep) {
 				free[i] = txep->mbuf;
-				txep->mbuf = NULL;
 			}
 			rte_mempool_put_bulk(free[0]->pool, (void **)free, m);
 		}
 	} else {
 		for (i = 0; i < txq->tx_rs_thresh; ++i, ++txep) {
 			rte_pktmbuf_free_seg(txep->mbuf);
-			txep->mbuf = NULL;
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h
index f9a7f46550..26deb59fc4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h
+++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_common.h
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@  i40e_tx_free_bufs(struct i40e_tx_queue *txq)
 	if (txq->offloads & RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_MBUF_FAST_FREE) {
 		for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
 			free[i] = txep[i].mbuf;
-			txep[i].mbuf = NULL;
 		}
 		rte_mempool_put_bulk(free[0]->pool, (void **)free, n);
 		goto done;