__ptr_ring_zero_tail currently does the - 1 operation twice:
- during initialization of head
- at each loop iteration

Let's just do it in one place, all we need to do
is adjust the loop condition. this is better:
- a slightly clearer logic with less duplication
- uses prefix -- we don't need to save the old value
- one less - 1 operation - for example, when ring is empty
  we now don't do - 1 at all, existing code does it once

Text size shrinks from 15081 to 15050 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/ptr_ring.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
index 4d014b6c4206..ba90c0e6ce70 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
@@ -248,15 +248,15 @@ static inline bool ptr_ring_empty_bh(struct ptr_ring *r)
  */
 static inline void __ptr_ring_zero_tail(struct ptr_ring *r, int consumer_head)
 {
-	int head = consumer_head - 1;
+	int head = consumer_head;
 
 	/* Zero out entries in the reverse order: this way we touch the
 	 * cache line that producer might currently be reading the last;
 	 * producer won't make progress and touch other cache lines
 	 * besides the first one until we write out all entries.
 	 */
-	while (likely(head >= r->consumer_tail))
-		r->queue[head--] = NULL;
+	while (likely(head > r->consumer_tail))
+		r->queue[--head] = NULL;
 
 	r->consumer_tail = consumer_head;
 }
-- 
MST

On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 08:29:35AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> __ptr_ring_zero_tail currently does the - 1 operation twice:
> - during initialization of head
> - at each loop iteration
> 
> Let's just do it in one place, all we need to do
> is adjust the loop condition. this is better:
> - a slightly clearer logic with less duplication
> - uses prefix -- we don't need to save the old value
> - one less - 1 operation - for example, when ring is empty
>   we now don't do - 1 at all, existing code does it once
> 
> Text size shrinks from 15081 to 15050 bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>