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net: Remove likely from l3mdev_master_ifindex_by_index

The likely() annotation in l3mdev_master_ifindex_by_index() has been
found to be incorrect 100% of the time in real-world workloads (e.g.,
web servers).

Annotated branches shows the following in these servers:

correct incorrect % Function File Line
0 169053813 100 l3mdev_master_ifindex_by_index l3mdev.h 81

This is happening because l3mdev_master_ifindex_by_index() is called
from __inet_check_established(), which calls
l3mdev_master_ifindex_by_index() passing the socked bounded interface.

l3mdev_master_ifindex_by_index(net, sk->sk_bound_dev_if);

Since most sockets are not going to be bound to a network device,
the likely() is giving the wrong assumption.

Remove the likely() annotation to ensure more accurate branch
prediction.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241008163205.3939629-1-leitao@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

authored by

Breno Leitao and committed by
Paolo Abeni
9e542ff8 09cf85ef

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+1 -1
include/net/l3mdev.h
··· 78 78 struct net_device *dev; 79 79 int rc = 0; 80 80 81 - if (likely(ifindex)) { 81 + if (ifindex) { 82 82 rcu_read_lock(); 83 83 84 84 dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);