net: sched: cake: Optimize the number of function calls and branches in heap construction

When constructing a heap, heapify operations are required on all
non-leaf nodes. Thus, determining the index of the first non-leaf node
is crucial. In a heap, the left child's index of node i is 2 * i + 1
and the right child's index is 2 * i + 2. Node CAKE_MAX_TINS *
CAKE_QUEUES / 2 has its left and right children at indexes
CAKE_MAX_TINS * CAKE_QUEUES + 1 and CAKE_MAX_TINS * CAKE_QUEUES + 2,
respectively, which are beyond the heap's range, indicating it as a
leaf node. Conversely, node CAKE_MAX_TINS * CAKE_QUEUES / 2 - 1 has a
left child at index CAKE_MAX_TINS * CAKE_QUEUES - 1, confirming its
non-leaf status. The loop should start from it since it's not a leaf
node.

By starting the loop from CAKE_MAX_TINS * CAKE_QUEUES / 2 - 1, we
minimize function calls and branch condition evaluations. This
adjustment theoretically reduces two function calls (one for
cake_heapify() and another for cake_heap_get_backlog()) and five branch
evaluations (one for iterating all non-leaf nodes, one within
cake_heapify()'s while loop, and three more within the while loop
with if conditions).

Signed-off-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408174716.751069-1-visitorckw@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

diff --git a/net/sched/sch_cake.c b/net/sched/sch_cake.c
index edee926ccde8b321c97321f6e0b61ee1df8347cc..2eabc4dc5b79a83ce423f73c9cccec86f14be7cf 100644 (file)
--- a/net/sched/sch_cake.c
+++ b/net/sched/sch_cake.c
@@ -1512,7 +1512,7 @@ static unsigned int cake_drop(struct Qdisc *sch, struct sk_buff **to_free)
        if (!q->overflow_timeout) {
                int i;
                /* Build fresh max-heap */
-               for (i = CAKE_MAX_TINS * CAKE_QUEUES / 2; i >= 0; i--)
+               for (i = CAKE_MAX_TINS * CAKE_QUEUES / 2 - 1; i >= 0; i--)
                        cake_heapify(q, i);
        }
        q->overflow_timeout = 65535;