From ada9f1cacb66b74a68254521bb5e3ca4eb8fa871 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:01:48 +0200 Subject: ath9k_hw: optimize all descriptor access functions Because all of the descriptor data structures are marked as __packed, GCC assumes the worst case wrt. alignment and generates unaligned load/store instructions on MIPS for access to all fields. Since descriptors always have to be 4-byte-aligned, we can just mark the data structures with __aligned(4), which allows GCC to generate much more efficient code. Verified through disassembly and OProfile comparisons. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_mac.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_mac.h') diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_mac.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_mac.h index 9f2cea7..45cc7e8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_mac.h +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_mac.h @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ struct ar9003_rxs { u32 status9; u32 status10; u32 status11; -} __packed; +} __packed __aligned(4); /* Transmit Control Descriptor */ struct ar9003_txc { @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ struct ar9003_txc { u32 ctl21; /* DMA control 21 */ u32 ctl22; /* DMA control 22 */ u32 pad[9]; /* pad to cache line (128 bytes/32 dwords) */ -} __packed; +} __packed __aligned(4); struct ar9003_txs { u32 ds_info; @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ struct ar9003_txs { u32 status6; u32 status7; u32 status8; -} __packed; +} __packed __aligned(4); void ar9003_hw_attach_mac_ops(struct ath_hw *hw); void ath9k_hw_set_rx_bufsize(struct ath_hw *ah, u16 buf_size); -- cgit v1.1