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authorEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>2005-12-22 21:49:22 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-01-03 22:11:15 +0100
commit90ddc4f0470427df306f308ad03db6b6b21644b8 (patch)
treef97c1d57b25585394ebbd4b42b8d42a339f98644 /net/packet
parent[NET]: Small cleanup to socket initialization (diff)
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[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 'net/packet')
-rw-r--r--net/packet/af_packet.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index 3e2462760413..deda6fdb1e53 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -251,10 +251,10 @@ static void packet_sock_destruct(struct sock *sk)
}
-static struct proto_ops packet_ops;
+static const struct proto_ops packet_ops;
#ifdef CONFIG_SOCK_PACKET
-static struct proto_ops packet_ops_spkt;
+static const struct proto_ops packet_ops_spkt;
static int packet_rcv_spkt(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, struct packet_type *pt, struct net_device *orig_dev)
{
@@ -1784,7 +1784,7 @@ out:
#ifdef CONFIG_SOCK_PACKET
-static struct proto_ops packet_ops_spkt = {
+static const struct proto_ops packet_ops_spkt = {
.family = PF_PACKET,
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.release = packet_release,
@@ -1806,7 +1806,7 @@ static struct proto_ops packet_ops_spkt = {
};
#endif
-static struct proto_ops packet_ops = {
+static const struct proto_ops packet_ops = {
.family = PF_PACKET,
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.release = packet_release,