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Paolo Abeni says: ==================== net/mlx5: use indirect call wrappers The mlx5_core driver uses several indirect calls in fast-path, some of them are invoked on each ingress packet, even for the XDP-only traffic. This series leverage the indirect call wrappers infrastructure the avoid the expansive RETPOLINE overhead for 2 indirect calls in fast-path. Each call is addressed on a different patch, plus we need to introduce a couple of additional helpers to cope with the higher number of possible direct-call alternatives. v2 -> v3: - do not add more INDIRECT_CALL_* macros - use only the direct calls always available regardless of the mlx5 build options in the last patch v1 -> v2: - update the direct call list and use a macro to define it, as per Saeed suggestion. An intermediated additional macro is needed to allow arg list expansion - patch 2/3 is unchanged, as the generated code looks better this way than with possible alternative (dropping BP hits) ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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