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| author | Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2005-12-22 12:49:22 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-01-03 13:11:15 -0800 |
| commit | 90ddc4f0470427df306f308ad03db6b6b21644b8 (patch) | |
| tree | f97c1d57b25585394ebbd4b42b8d42a339f98644 /include/net/protocol.h | |
| parent | 77d76ea310b50a9c8ff15bd290fcb4ed4961adf2 (diff) | |
[NET]: move struct proto_ops to const
I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share
a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default
linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at
least)
This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const,
so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing.
This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure
if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly)
I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make
them const.
This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and
speedup some socket system calls.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/protocol.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/protocol.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/protocol.h b/include/net/protocol.h index a29cb29647d..63f7db99c2a 100644 --- a/include/net/protocol.h +++ b/include/net/protocol.h @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ struct inet_protosw { int protocol; /* This is the L4 protocol number. */ struct proto *prot; - struct proto_ops *ops; + const struct proto_ops *ops; int capability; /* Which (if any) capability do * we need to use this socket |