net/tap: remove redundant syscall on Tx
authorAdrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:51:57 +0000 (13:51 +0100)
committerFerruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Tue, 4 Apr 2017 16:59:39 +0000 (18:59 +0200)
Polling the Tx queue file descriptor before writing to it is not mandatory
since it is configured as non-blocking.

Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
drivers/net/tap/rte_eth_tap.c

index ece3a5f..658ed14 100644 (file)
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
-#include <poll.h>
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
 #include <linux/if.h>
 #include <linux/if_tun.h>
@@ -242,7 +241,6 @@ pmd_tx_burst(void *queue, struct rte_mbuf **bufs, uint16_t nb_pkts)
 {
        struct rte_mbuf *mbuf;
        struct tx_queue *txq = queue;
-       struct pollfd pfd;
        uint16_t num_tx = 0;
        unsigned long num_tx_bytes = 0;
        int i, n;
@@ -250,26 +248,18 @@ pmd_tx_burst(void *queue, struct rte_mbuf **bufs, uint16_t nb_pkts)
        if (unlikely(nb_pkts == 0))
                return 0;
 
-       pfd.events = POLLOUT;
-       pfd.fd = txq->fd;
        for (i = 0; i < nb_pkts; i++) {
-               n = poll(&pfd, 1, 0);
-
+               /* copy the tx frame data */
+               mbuf = bufs[num_tx];
+               n = write(txq->fd,
+                         rte_pktmbuf_mtod(mbuf, void *),
+                         rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(mbuf));
                if (n <= 0)
                        break;
 
-               if (pfd.revents & POLLOUT) {
-                       /* copy the tx frame data */
-                       mbuf = bufs[num_tx];
-                       n = write(pfd.fd, rte_pktmbuf_mtod(mbuf, void*),
-                                 rte_pktmbuf_pkt_len(mbuf));
-                       if (n <= 0)
-                               break;
-
-                       num_tx++;
-                       num_tx_bytes += mbuf->pkt_len;
-                       rte_pktmbuf_free(mbuf);
-               }
+               num_tx++;
+               num_tx_bytes += mbuf->pkt_len;
+               rte_pktmbuf_free(mbuf);
        }
 
        txq->stats.opackets += num_tx;