On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:38:30PM +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 06/07/2013 10:32 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> >From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> >
> >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 <p...@pjrc.com>
> >Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> >
> >---
> >  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?

Oops, it needs to move down a bit further, let me respin this...

greg k-h
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