Merge branch 'dsa_to_port-loops'
Vladimir Oltean says:
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Remove the "dsa_to_port in a loop" antipattern
v1->v2: more patches
v2->v3: less patches
As opposed to previous series, I would now like to first refactor the
DSA core, since that sees fewer patches than drivers, and make the
helpers available. Since the refactoring is fairly noisy, I don't want
to force it on driver maintainers right away, patches can be submitted
independently.
The original cover letter is below:
The DSA core and drivers currently iterate too much through the port
list of a switch. For example, this snippet:
for (port = 0; port < ds->num_ports; port++) {
if (!dsa_is_cpu_port(ds, port))
continue;
ds->ops->change_tag_protocol(ds, port, tag_ops->proto);
}
iterates through ds->num_ports once, and then calls dsa_is_cpu_port to
filter out the other types of ports. But that function has a hidden call
to dsa_to_port() in it, which contains:
list_for_each_entry(dp, &dst->ports, list)
if (dp->ds == ds && dp->index == p)
return dp;
where the only thing we wanted to know in the first place was whether
dp->type == DSA_PORT_TYPE_CPU or not.
So it seems that the problem is that we are not iterating with the right
variable. We have an "int port" but in fact need a "struct dsa_port *dp".
This has started being an issue since this patch series:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/cover/20191020031941.3805884-1-vivien.didelot@gmail.com/
The currently proposed set of changes iterates like this:
dsa_switch_for_each_cpu_port(cpu_dp, ds)
err = ds->ops->change_tag_protocol(ds, cpu_dp->index,
tag_ops->proto);
which iterates directly over ds->dst->ports, which is a list of struct
dsa_port *dp. This makes it much easier and more efficient to check
dp->type.
As a nice side effect, with the proposed driver API, driver writers are
now encouraged to use more efficient patterns, and not only due to less
iterations through the port list. For example, something like this:
for (port = 0; port < ds->num_ports; port++)
do_something();
probably does not need to do_something() for the ports that are disabled
in the device tree. But adding extra code for that would look like this:
for (port = 0; port < ds->num_ports; port++) {
if (!dsa_is_unused_port(ds, port))
continue;
do_something();
}
and therefore, it is understandable that some driver writers may decide
to not bother. This patch series introduces a "dsa_switch_for_each_available_port"
macro which comes at no extra cost in terms of lines of code / number of
braces to the driver writer, but it has the "dsa_is_unused_port" check
embedded within it.
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Signed-off-by: 
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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