From 8c2b58e65d0186af5f73c7b78e46b798166d7f68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ido Schimmel Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 20:03:58 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] mlxsw: core: Avoid unnecessary EMAD buffer copy mlxsw_emad_transmit() takes care of sending EMAD transactions to the device. Since these transactions can time out, the driver performs up to 5 retransmissions, each time copying the skb with the original request. The data of the skb does not change throughout the process, so there is no need to copy it each time. Instead, only the skb itself can be copied. Therefore, use skb_clone() instead of skb_copy(). This reduces the latency of the function by about 16%. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c index 7e9a7cb31720..ad93e01b2cda 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c @@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ static int mlxsw_emad_transmit(struct mlxsw_core *mlxsw_core, struct sk_buff *skb; int err; - skb = skb_copy(trans->tx_skb, GFP_KERNEL); + skb = skb_clone(trans->tx_skb, GFP_KERNEL); if (!skb) return -ENOMEM;