[PATCH 06/10] net: emac: batch stats, eliminate modulo, tighten barrier in RX poll

From: Rosen Penev

Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 00:18:14 EST


Three small hot-path changes in emac_poll_rx():

- Batch per-packet 64-bit stat updates into local accumulators and
write dev->stats once after the poll loop, avoiding expensive
load-linked/store-conditional sequences on 32-bit PPC for every
received packet.

- Replace slot = (slot + 1) % NUM_RX_BUFF with a simple
if (++slot == NUM_RX_BUFF) branch, avoiding a div/mul by a
non-power-of-2 constant.

- Use dma_rmb() instead of mb() when ordering the ctrl vs. data_len
read of the coherent RX descriptor. The device writes the
descriptor fields in-order and clears MAL_RX_CTRL_EMPTY last;
a read barrier is sufficient.

Assisted-by: opencode:big-pickle
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
index 5e7b85d28bde..ced9690cddc3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
@@ -1741,6 +1741,7 @@ static int emac_poll_rx(void *param, int budget)
{
struct emac_instance *dev = param;
int slot = dev->rx_slot, received = 0;
+ u64 packets = 0, bytes = 0;

DBG2(dev, "poll_rx(%d)" NL, budget);

@@ -1797,10 +1798,11 @@ static int emac_poll_rx(void *param, int budget)

napi_gro_receive(&dev->mal->napi, skb);
next:
- ++dev->stats.rx_packets;
+ ++packets;
skip:
- dev->stats.rx_bytes += len;
- slot = (slot + 1) % NUM_RX_BUFF;
+ bytes += len;
+ if (++slot == NUM_RX_BUFF)
+ slot = 0;
--budget;
++received;
continue;
@@ -1864,6 +1866,9 @@ static int emac_poll_rx(void *param, int budget)
emac_rx_enable(dev);
dev->rx_slot = 0;
}
+
+ dev->stats.rx_packets += packets;
+ dev->stats.rx_bytes += bytes;
return received;
}

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2.54.0