mlxsw: core: Avoid unnecessary EMAD buffer copy
authorIdo Schimmel <idosch@OSS.NVIDIA.COM>
Mon, 17 May 2021 17:03:58 +0000 (20:03 +0300)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 17 May 2021 22:15:46 +0000 (15:15 -0700)
commit8c2b58e65d0186af5f73c7b78e46b798166d7f68
tree78fcdac003feb56d1d26ba4cccf705f5f6f968d0
parent837ec05cfea08284c575e8e834777b107da5ff9d
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 <idosch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c