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Date:      Mon, 2 Jun 2014 22:01:00 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Yong-Hyeon Pyun <pyunyh@gmail.com>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r266974 - in head/sys: dev/dc dev/fxp dev/mii dev/netmap kern net
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On 2 June 2014 18:29, Yonghyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:42:10AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 2, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> > .. and actually, bikeshedding for a moment, would we be able to move a
>> > lot of these accessor methods over to inlines? Would that break the
>> > Juniper way of doing things?
>>
>> That would definitely break Juniper as it doesn't give a stable
>> ABI.
>>
>> I've suggested an approach that allows for both, but it was deemed
>> unnecessary. The argument being that the function call overhead is
>> negligible.
>>
>> We can always revisit that decision if needed...
>>
>
> The function call overheads shall show measurable differences on
> slow boxes.  This change adds several function calls in driver's
> fast path(interrupt handler, packet statistics, checksum
> offloading checking and etc) and these functions would be called
> on every TX/RX packet.
> It would be great if there is a way to minimize function call
> overheads in fast path.

I wonder if in the short term we should just use inlines for now, at
least so the methodization can get done without hurting people on
ARM/MIPS.

ARM/MIPS people (me included) - let's see if we can generate some number?



-a



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