Re: [PATCH] USB: cdc-acm: remove unneeded spin_lock_irqsave/restoreon write path

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Fri Jun 07 2013 - 14:38:31 EST


Hello.

On 06/07/2013 10:32 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

When writing data we were:
lock
do some work
unlock
call function
lock
do some work
unlock
return
return

It turns out, that "function" was only ever called in the one place, so
instead of locking/unlocking for no good reason, just inline the
function and only grab the lock once.

This has sped up the pathological case of sending 1 byte packets to a
loop-back cdc-acm device from 49600 bytes per second to 50100 bytes a
second on my workstation. A tiny increase yes, but noticable, and now
the spinlock isn't the hottest thing on the perf graph anymore. Yes, we
are still waiting for the hardware for the most part, but getting rid of
a spin_lock_irqsave() call for every packet is still a good thing.

And we end up deleting lines of code, always a win overall.

This was found by using a Teensy 3.0 device and the test program and
firmware located at:
http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/benchmark_usb_serial_receive.html

Reported-by: Paul Stoffregen <paul@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 51 +++++++++++++++-----------------------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
[...]
@@ -653,13 +621,30 @@ static int acm_tty_write(struct tty_stru
}
wb = &acm->wb[wbn];
+ if (!acm->dev) {
+ wb->use = 0;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&acm->write_lock, flags);
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
count = (count > acm->writesize) ? acm->writesize : count;
dev_vdbg(&acm->data->dev, "%s - write %d\n", __func__, count);
memcpy(wb->buf, buf, count);
wb->len = count;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&acm->write_lock, flags);
- stat = acm_write_start(acm, wbn);
+ usb_autopm_get_interface_async(acm->control);
+ if (acm->susp_count) {
+ if (!acm->delayed_wb)
+ acm->delayed_wb = wb;
+ else
+ usb_autopm_put_interface_async(acm->control);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&acm->write_lock, flags);

But you've already dropped it above the *if* and not taken again?

+ return count; /* A white lie */
+ }
+ usb_mark_last_busy(acm->dev);
+
+ stat = acm_start_wb(acm, wb);
if (stat < 0)
return stat;
return count;


WBR, Sergei

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