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be2net: Declare some u16 fields as u32 to improve performance
authorajit.khaparde@broadcom.com <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:03:48 +0000 (00:33 +0530)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:25:19 +0000 (15:25 -0500)
commit57dfa569791517848a5286bb39ca57f425bcd421
treee3726de0de2bb2527104965bb4928c3607bff823
parent82435208df27ab1efdd4994fe8e4006176c487e1
be2net: Declare some u16 fields as u32 to improve performance

When 16-bit integers are loaded on CPUs with high order native
register sizes, the CPU could use some extra ops before using them.
And currently some of the frequently used fields in the driver like
the producer and consumer indices of the queues are declared as u16.

This patch declares such fields as u32.  With this change we see the
64-byte packets per second numbers improve by about 4%.

Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_cmds.c
drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c